George W. Bush: “America is blessed to have fine citizens who volunteer to defend us in distant lands.”

On this day of prayer, Laura and I are holding up our fellow Texans who are hurting.

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

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

History will remember him as among the finest public servants of his generation – a patriot who brought integrity, high intelligence, and seriousness of purpose to every position.