Arizona shooting: Christina-Taylor Green laid to rest

[pinboy3niner]

Arizona shooting: Christina-Taylor Green laid to rest

Her story has been adopted by the nation, a 9-year-old life celebrated by President Barack Obama as a symbol of American hope; but on Thursday afternoon, in a quiet desert church filled with mourners and a too-small casket, her story belonged to her dad.

A calm John Green stood before nearly 1,700 people and talked about the sweet, sassy life of his little girl, Christina-Taylor Green, killed in the massacre near Tucson on Saturday.

Christina-Taylor liked to pick blackberries and hit baseballs and dance around the house to loud music with her mother to welcome him home from business trips, said Green, a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

She was precocious and tenacious and is probably giving someone directions in heaven right now, he said.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2011/01/13/20110113arizona-shooting-christina-taylor-green-laid-rest.html#ixzz1B14memkz

[blondeatlast]

1. She seemed destined to change something in a good way. I think she still will do just that.

:cry: