George W. Bush: “Thomas D. Schroeder, of North Carolina, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina…”

If any voters came hoping for a kind word and a hug, they’d have to settle for the kind word.

Today, we remember your loss, we share your sorrow and we honor the men and women that you have loved so long and so well.

We learned that bravery is more common than we imagined, emerging with sudden splendor in the face of death.

Is it in our national interests that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think it is, and so do you.