George W. Bush: “Our country is also safer because of the historic changes that have come around the world in places like Afghanistan.”

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

You've showed the great strength of America through your work—and that is your good heart.

Being your President was a high privilege, and the honor of a lifetime.

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