Brave Gabby Giffords leads Pledge of Allegiance

[jaxx]

Brave Gabby Giffords leads Pledge of Allegiance as she makes emotional appearance at Tucson memorial to honour victims of shootings one year ago today

Last updated at 3:50 AM on 9th January 2012

Representative Gabrielle Giffords led a crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance, in a rare public appearance tonight at a candlelight vigil one year after surviving a deadly shooting.

The Democratic congresswoman - who has struggled to re-learn to walk after being shot in the head - stepped onstage to cheers from the crowd. Ron Barber, a staffer who was wounded in the rampage that killed six people one year ago, invited her to lead the audience in the pledge.

The crowd at the University of Arizona chanted: 'Gabby, Gabby.'

She limped to the podium and husband Mark Kelly helped lift her left hand over her heart. After months of intensive speech therapy, Giffords recited the pledge with the audience, head held high and a smile on her face.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...rsary.html

Brave, yes. And so determined.

More pics at the link.

[SeattleGirl]

I'm still amazed that she survived, and how well she is recovering.

Go Gabby!

[janedrake]

Giffords is an amazing soul -- just amazing.

[DFW]

You had to have known her before. She ALWAYS had this kind of determination. Even the crazy man's bullet couldn't kill that.

[jaxx]

It must be especially sweet for you to see her recovering DFW. She has to be quite the woman.

[DFW]

That she is!

[azmouse]

I get teary eyed every time I hear good news about Giffords.