By Grey Feathers

January 8, 2014 (San Diego's East County) -- Three years ago today, Gabriele Gifford was shot in the head.  She was rushed to the hospital where we thought she would surely die.  The same hospital where I would be treated after my heart attack a few month later in the hot summer of 2011. 

There was a Lunar Eclipse that summer that plunged Tucson into the deepest darkness conceivable and it seemed the chill of the legendary Shadow Wolf of Native American lore had been unleashed upon my world. 

This morning Gabby wrote in the New York Times that for the first time she can will her right arm to move and it obeys.  After years of persistent physical therapy she is making steady progress.  The news brought me to weeping for joy. 

January 14, 2011 (San Diego’s East County) – Frederick “Rick” Sturckow, who grew up in Lakeside and La Mesa, may be the commander on the next space shuttle flight. NASA has named Sturckow to fill in at least temporarily in training for commander Mark Kelly, whose wife, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, is recovering from an attempted assassination in Tucson.

ALLEGED SHOOTER LISTED MEIN KAMPF AMONG HIS FAVORITE BOOKS

"In San Diego, we stand together today and say that violence has no place in politics, not here, and never again." --  Jess Durfee and Tony Krvaric, chairs of the San Diego Democratic and Republican parties, in a joint statement

Former ECM manager now in Tucson recalls meeting Giffords, says she was outspoken on need to `tone down' rhetoric that could incite violence

 

January 8, 2011 (Tucson) Updated 5:45 p.m. -- Democratic Congersswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona's first Jewish representative,  has been shot through the brain and is in critical condition following surgery, according to a hospital spokesperson. A federal judge and a nine-year-old-baby are among the dead; ten others were wounded when a gunman opened fire in Tucson on a street corner where Giffords was hosting a meeting with constituents.