The President's News Conference
12/19/2007
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
I'm really happy to be back in this great state.
We learned that bravery is more common than we imagined, emerging with sudden splendor in the face of death.
Being your President was a high privilege, and the honor of a lifetime.
Those who have lost their precious children are facing a grief no parents should ever know.