George W. Bush: “I congratulate you on that.”

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

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 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.

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