George W. Bush: “Freedom is not America's gift to the world; freedom is the Almighty's gift to each person in this world.”

We are grateful to the first responders and volunteers who are working to find the missing and comfort the grieving at Camp Mystic and along the Guadalupe.

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

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.

For eight years, it has been my honor to serve as your President. The first decade of this new century has been a period of consequence—a time set apart.