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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Wed Aug 16, 2017, 09:41 PM Aug 2017

"I'd rather have my child, but by golly if I've got to give her up...we are going to make it count"

“They tried to kill my child to shut her up, but guess what, you just magnified her,”

Susan Bro, Heather Heyer's mother at her daughter's funeral today.

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"I'd rather have my child, but by golly if I've got to give her up...we are going to make it count" (Original Post) Ken Burch Aug 2017 OP

Wow! Just wow! Phoenix61 Aug 2017 #1

Puts me in mind of one of Holly Near's great songs from the Seventies. Ken Burch Aug 2017 #2

I heard her on NPR today and cried. This is so brilliant, and she must be in so much pain. Liberty Belle Aug 2017 #3

she is a powerful woman KT2000 Aug 2017 #4

Phoenix61

(17,002 posts)

1. Wow! Just wow!

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Wed Aug 16, 2017, 09:55 PM

Aug 2017

There is no way I would be able to think that clearly if I was in her shoes but she is right. The murder of a young woman by Nazis has made it very, very clear what is at stake.