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CHRISTINA-TAYLOR GREEN
September 11,
2001 - January 8, 2011
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Christina-Taylor Green was born on a day of great
tragedy and died on a day of tragedy. She was the
youngest of the six victims who died as a result of the
Tucson, Arizona shooting. She had gone to the
Safeway supermarket to meet congresswoman Gabrielle
Giffords who was holding a meet-and-greet.
Christina-Taylor, even at the very young age of
nine-years old, realized how lucky she was to be leading
the wonderful life that she was leading. She
wanted to go into politics one day in order to be able
to help those who were less fortunate than herself.
One of the bullets fired by the gunman struck her in the
back and pierced her heart and lung. Doctors
believe that she died instantly even though herculean
efforts were made at the hospital to revive her.
Christina-Taylor Green was cremated and according to the
book As Good as She Imagined (a book written with
her mother Roxanna) her ashes were parceled out thusly:
some spread over the Green property, their Maryland
farm, Yankee Stadium, Ground Zero, Cape Cod, Boston, and
Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. They also kept
some in an urn in their house and spread some in the
Caribbean that Christina-Taylor loved so much. |
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| Where Christina-Taylor Green
attended school. After Christina-Taylor's death a
mother of another student from the Mesa Verde Elementary
School shared a story with Roxanna Green. The
mother's son was a new student and sat by himself at the
back of the school bus. Christina-Taylor started
sitting with him until he was more acclimated to the
student population. It was something that Roxanna
Green had never known about her daughter. |
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| The baseball field where
Christina-Taylor's little league team played. She
had said that she wanted to become the first female to
play Major League baseball. The field was renamed
Green Field in her honor. The back of a sculpture
donated in her honor is in the foreground.
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"The Angel of
Steadfast Love" sculpture by Lei Hennessy Owen. At
the base of the sculpture are two rocks from the field
in Shanksville, Pennsylvania where flight United 93 was
brought down by a passenger revolt on September 11,
2001. The metal is from the World Trade Center and
and Pentagon. |
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| This larger outer piece of
metal is from the wreckage of the World Trade Center.
The smaller pieces welded to the inside are objects from
the damaged section of the Pentagon building in
Washington D.C. |
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A sculptural
likeness of Christina-Taylor Green taking a dove from
Christ. |
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Tucson shooting site where I left a photograph
of Christina-Taylor. R.I.P. sweetheart, you have influenced
many, including an old man from Minnesota. - Todd.
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Related Page:
TUCSON
SHOOTING SITE
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