Meet the Naval ship that will be named for former US Representative Gabrielle Giffords [source: US Navy]
“The fact that she was the nicest person… makes it so much harder. Somebody would have understood if they shot me.”
“Great gif, or greatest gif?” - @SaraLang
via Daily Intel
Gabrielle Giffords is greeted in by her colleagues at the State of the Union address

Obama Hugs Gabrielle Giffords At 2012 State Of The Union
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords announces that she will step down from Congress to focus on her recovery in this touching YouTube video.
Rep. Giffords writing left handed, walking
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“Excellent news - Congresswoman Giffords is back and voting tonight!” - @SenJohnMcCain
ShortFormBlog: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords discharged from hospital
- 1/8/2011 Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot through the head during a town hall event outside a Safeway in Tucson, Arizona. The shooter was Jared Lee Loughner, a man of obvious mental illness who killed six people that day. Giffords, however, survived and was rushed into intensive care.
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A smiling Gabrielle Giffords, seen here with an unidentified woman, is shown in one of the first photographs showing the Arizona congresswoman after being shot earlier this year. The photos were posted to Giffords’s Facebook page. (Photo: PK Weis / Southwestphoto.com via Facebook)
She looks great! I hope her recovery continues to go well.
NASA Commander Mark Kelly sends a special message to his wife at U2’s Seattle concert Sunday night. Beautiful.
(via apsies)
“ ‘I can’t say I notice improvement every day,’ says Kelly, her husband, ‘but I can every few days.’
“Almost every 72 hours, she resembles more closely the woman she was before.”
