TUCSON, Ariz. – Donated corneas from the young girl killed in the Arizona mass shooting have saved the eyesight of two children, the girl's father told The Associated Press on Monday.
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It hardly makes up for the loss of Christina Taylor Green or the others lost or critically injured during the shooting 8 days ago, but it shows us that while there is evil in the world, there is far too much good to for it ever to prosper.
Of course I don't need to re-iterate the story of Christina Taylor Green, born on 9/11/01, killed on 1/8/11, we all know and all of our hearts ache. So while we try to understand and repair the damage to our psyches and our hearts, while others, including Representative Giffords struggle and fight for a full recovery and those who lost loved ones, we can take the small victories such as this to guide as give us hope and remind us that the Jared Laughner's of the world can shock us, but they cannot destroy us.
Christina was the youngest victim of the shooting that left a total of six dead and 13 others wounded — including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords — on Jan. 8. Green said he and his wife Roxanna didn't hesitate to allow doctors to use Christina's organs.
"The fact that her organs were able to help people, that was an amazing thing to me," he said. "It's just another thing that this little girl has given the world."
Green said knowing that other children have been helped by Christina has been a comfort during a difficult time for his family.
"We really felt a lot of emotion about that," he said. "That was something that really made us feel gifted, still. We just want to make sure that her little time here in the world was well-spent."
I apologize for the shortness of the diary, I just wanted to get this out there.