George W. Bush: “Farming and ranching can be dangerous work; in 2002, the agriculture industry had the second-highest rate of deaths due…”

We are heartbroken by the loss of life and the agony so many are feeling.

It has been the privilege of a lifetime to serve as your President.

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

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