George W. Bush: “Your students are fortunate, really fortunate, to have you in their lives.”

To you and the honored dead, our country is forever grateful.

Those who have lost their precious children are facing a grief no parents should ever know.

Violence and vitriol must be purged from the public square. Members of other political parties are not our enemies; they are our fellow citizens.

This is not mere nostalgia, it is the truest version of ourselves.