Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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0:01 - 0:03Pat Mitchell: That day,
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0:03 - 0:07January 8, 2011, began like all others.
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0:07 - 0:10You were both doing the work that you love.
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0:10 - 0:12You were meeting with constituents,
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0:12 - 0:14which is something that you loved doing
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0:14 - 0:15as a congresswoman,
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0:15 - 0:18and Mark, you were happily preparing
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0:18 - 0:21for your next space shuttle.
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0:21 - 0:25And suddenly, everything
that you had planned -
0:25 - 0:27or expected in your lives
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0:27 - 0:31was irrevocably changed forever.
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0:31 - 0:32Mark Kelly: Yeah, it's amazing,
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0:32 - 0:34it's amazing how
everything can change -
0:34 - 0:36for any of us in an instant.
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0:36 - 0:38People don't realize that.
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0:38 - 0:39I certainly didn't.
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0:39 - 0:39Gabby Giffords: Yes.
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0:39 - 0:41MK: And on that Saturday morning,
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0:41 - 0:44I got this horrible phone call
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0:44 - 0:46from Gabby's chief of staff.
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0:46 - 0:48She didn't have much other information.
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0:48 - 0:50She just said, "Gabby was shot."
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0:50 - 0:51A few minutes later, I called her back
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0:51 - 0:54and I actually thought for a second,
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0:54 - 0:56well, maybe I just imagined
getting this phone call. -
0:56 - 0:58I called her back, and
that's when she told me -
0:58 - 1:00that Gabby had been shot in the head.
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1:00 - 1:02And from that point on,
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1:02 - 1:06I knew that our lives were
going to be a lot different. -
1:06 - 1:08PM: And when you arrived at the hospital,
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1:08 - 1:10what was the prognosis that they gave you
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1:10 - 1:14about Gabby's condition
and what recovery, if any, -
1:14 - 1:15you could expect?
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1:15 - 1:17MK: Well, for a gunshot wound to the head
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1:17 - 1:18and a traumatic brain injury,
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1:18 - 1:21they typically can't tell you much.
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1:21 - 1:24Every injury is different. It's not predictable
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1:24 - 1:26like often a stroke might be predictable,
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1:26 - 1:29which is another TBI kind of injury.
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1:29 - 1:32So they didn't know how long
Gabby would be in a coma, -
1:32 - 1:35didn't know when that would change
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1:35 - 1:38and what the prognosis would be.
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1:38 - 1:42PM: Gabby, has your recovery
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1:42 - 1:46been an effort to create
a new Gabby Giffords -
1:46 - 1:49or reclaim the old Gabby Giffords?
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1:49 - 1:54GG: The new one -- better, stronger, tougher.
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1:54 - 1:58(Applause)
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1:58 - 2:01MK: That to say,
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2:01 - 2:04when you look at the picture behind us,
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2:04 - 2:06to come back from that kind of injury
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2:06 - 2:08and come back strong
and stronger than ever -
2:08 - 2:10is a really tough thing to do.
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2:10 - 2:11I don't know anybody
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2:11 - 2:14that's as tough as my
wonderful wife right here. -
2:14 - 2:17(Applause)
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2:17 - 2:20PM: And what were the first signs
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2:20 - 2:23that recovery was not
only going to be possible -
2:23 - 2:26but you were going to have some semblance
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2:26 - 2:29of the life that you and Gabby had planned?
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2:29 - 2:31MK: Well, the first thing, for me, was
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2:31 - 2:34Gabby was still kind of almost unconscious,
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2:34 - 2:40but she did something when she
was in the ICU hospital bed -
2:40 - 2:42that she used to do when we might
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2:42 - 2:44be out to dinner at a restaurant,
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2:44 - 2:46in that she pulled my ring off
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2:46 - 2:49and she flipped it from one finger to the next,
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2:49 - 2:51and at that point I knew
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2:51 - 2:52that she was still in there.
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2:52 - 2:54PM: And there were certain words, too.
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2:54 - 2:57Didn't she surprise you with
words in the beginning? -
2:57 - 3:03MK: Well, it was tough in the beginning.
GG: What? What? Chicken. Chicken. Chicken. -
3:03 - 3:04MK: Yeah, that was it.
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3:04 - 3:08For the first month, that was the extent
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3:08 - 3:09of Gabby's vocabulary.
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3:09 - 3:12For some reason, she has aphasia,
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3:12 - 3:14which is difficulty with communication.
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3:14 - 3:16She latched on to the word "chicken,"
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3:16 - 3:19which isn't the best but
certainly is not the worst. -
3:19 - 3:21(Laughter)
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3:21 - 3:22And we were actually worried
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3:22 - 3:27it could have been a lot worse than that.
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3:27 - 3:29PM: Gabby, what's been
the toughest challenge -
3:29 - 3:32for you during this recovery?
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3:32 - 3:36GG: Talking. Really hard. Really.
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3:36 - 3:39MK: Yeah, with aphasia, Gabby
knows what she wants to say, -
3:39 - 3:41she just can't get it out.
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3:41 - 3:42She understands everything,
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3:42 - 3:45but the communication is just very difficult
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3:45 - 3:47because when you look at the picture,
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3:47 - 3:52the part of your brain where
those communication centers are -
3:52 - 3:53are on the left side of your head,
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3:53 - 3:55which is where the bullet passed through.
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3:55 - 3:57PM: So you have to do
a very dangerous thing: -
3:57 - 3:59speak for your wife.
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3:59 - 4:01MK: I do.
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4:01 - 4:05It might be some of the most
dangerous things I've ever done. -
4:05 - 4:07PM: Gabby, are you optimistic
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4:07 - 4:10about your continuing recovery --
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4:10 - 4:12walking, talking,
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4:12 - 4:15being able to move your arm and leg?
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4:15 - 4:19GG: I'm optimistic. It will be a long, hard haul,
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4:19 - 4:22but I'm optimistic.
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4:22 - 4:25PM: That seems to be the number one
characteristic of Gabby Giffords, -
4:25 - 4:27wouldn't you say? (Applause)
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4:27 - 4:28MK: Gabby's always been really optimistic.
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4:28 - 4:31She works incredibly hard every day.
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4:31 - 4:34GG: On the treadmill,
walked on my treadmill, -
4:34 - 4:37Spanish lessons, French horn.
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4:37 - 4:40MK: It's only my wife who could be --
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4:40 - 4:42and if you knew her before she was injured,
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4:42 - 4:44you would kind of understand this --
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4:44 - 4:45somebody who could be injured
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4:45 - 4:48and have such a hard time communicating
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4:48 - 4:50and meets with a speech therapist,
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4:50 - 4:52and then about a month ago, she says,
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4:52 - 4:56"I want to learn Spanish again."
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4:56 - 4:58PM: Well, let's take a little closer look
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4:58 - 5:01at the wife, and this was even before
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5:01 - 5:03you met Gabby Giffords.
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5:03 - 5:05And she's on a motor scooter there,
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5:05 - 5:08but it's my understanding that's a very tame image
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5:08 - 5:11of what Gabby Giffords was like growing up.
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5:11 - 5:13MK: Yeah, Gabby, she
used to race motorcycles. -
5:13 - 5:15So that's a scooter, but she had --
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5:15 - 5:19well, she still has a BMW motorcycle.
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5:19 - 5:21PM: Does she ride it?
MK: Well, that's a challenge -
5:21 - 5:24with not being able to move her right arm,
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5:24 - 5:28but I think with something
I know about, Velcro, -
5:28 - 5:31we might be able to get her back on the bike,
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5:31 - 5:35Velcro her right hand up onto the handlebar.
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5:35 - 5:37PM: I have a feeling we might
see that picture next, -
5:37 - 5:39Gabby.
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5:39 - 5:41But you meet, you're already decided
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5:41 - 5:44that you're going to dedicate
your life to service. -
5:44 - 5:46You're going into the military
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5:46 - 5:49and eventually to become an astronaut.
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5:49 - 5:51So you meet.
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5:51 - 5:54What attracts you to Gabby?
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5:54 - 5:58MK: Well, when we met, oddly enough,
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5:58 - 6:00it was the last time we were in Vancouver,
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6:00 - 6:03about 10 years ago. We met in Vancouver,
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6:03 - 6:07at the airport, on a trip
that we were both taking -
6:07 - 6:09to China,
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6:09 - 6:11that I would actually, from my background,
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6:11 - 6:13I would call it a boondoggle.
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6:13 - 6:16Gabby would —
GG: Fact-finding mission. -
6:16 - 6:19MK: She would call it an
important fact-finding mission. -
6:19 - 6:22She was a state senator at the time,
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6:22 - 6:25and we met here, at the airport,
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6:25 - 6:26before a trip to China.
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6:26 - 6:29PM: Would you describe it
as a whirlwind romance? -
6:29 - 6:31GG: No, no, no.
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6:31 - 6:33(Laughter)
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6:33 - 6:35A good friend.
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6:35 - 6:38MK: Yeah, we were friends for a long time.
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6:38 - 6:43GG: Yes. (Laughter)
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6:43 - 6:49MK: And then she invited me
on, about a year or so later, -
6:49 - 6:51she invited me on a date.
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6:51 - 6:53Where'd we go, Gabby?
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6:53 - 6:54GG: Death row.
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6:54 - 6:58MK: Yes. Our first date was to death row
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6:58 - 7:02at the Florence state prison in Arizona,
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7:02 - 7:07which was just outside
Gabby's state senate district. -
7:07 - 7:09They were working on some legislation
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7:09 - 7:12that had to do with crime and punishment
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7:12 - 7:14and capital punishment
in the state of Arizona. -
7:14 - 7:16So she couldn't get anybody
else to go with her, -
7:16 - 7:20and I'm like, "Of course I
want to go to death row." -
7:20 - 7:23So that was our first date.
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7:23 - 7:25We've been together ever since.
GG: Yes. -
7:25 - 7:27PM: Well, that might have contributed to the reason
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7:27 - 7:30that Gabby decided to marry you.
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7:30 - 7:33You were willing to go to death row, after all.
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7:33 - 7:34MK: I guess.
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7:34 - 7:38PM: Gabby, what did make you want to marry Mark?
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7:38 - 7:44GG: Um, good friends. Best friends. Best friends.
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7:44 - 7:47MK: I thought we always
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7:47 - 7:50had a very special relationship.
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7:50 - 7:51We've gone through some tough times
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7:51 - 7:55and it's only made it stronger.
GG: Stronger. -
7:55 - 7:58PM: After you got married, however,
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7:58 - 8:01you continued very independent lives.
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8:01 - 8:03Actually, you didn't even live together.
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8:03 - 8:05MK: We had one of those commuter marriages.
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8:05 - 8:08In our case, it was Washington, D.C., Houston,
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8:08 - 8:09Tucson.
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8:09 - 8:11Sometimes we'd go clockwise,
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8:11 - 8:12sometimes counterclockwise,
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8:12 - 8:14to all those different places,
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8:14 - 8:18and we didn't really live together
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8:18 - 8:20until that Saturday morning.
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8:20 - 8:23Within an hour of Gabby being shot,
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8:23 - 8:24I was on an airplane to Tucson,
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8:24 - 8:26and that was the moment
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8:26 - 8:29where that had changed things.
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8:29 - 8:31PM: And also, Gabby, you had run for Congress
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8:31 - 8:34after being a state senator
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8:34 - 8:37and served in Congress for six years.
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8:37 - 8:38What did you like best
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8:38 - 8:40about being in Congress?
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8:40 - 8:44GG: Fast pace. Fast pace.
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8:44 - 8:47PM: Well it was the way you did it.
GG: Yes, yes. Fast pace. -
8:47 - 8:49PM: I'm not sure people would
describe it entirely that way. -
8:49 - 8:51(Laughter)
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8:51 - 8:53MK: Yeah, you know, legislation is often
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8:53 - 8:56at a colossally slow pace,
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8:56 - 8:58but my wife, and I have to admit,
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8:58 - 9:00a lot of other members of Congress that I know,
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9:00 - 9:01work incredibly hard.
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9:01 - 9:03I mean, Gabby would run
around like a crazy person, -
9:03 - 9:05never take a day off,
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9:05 - 9:07maybe a half a day off a month,
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9:07 - 9:10and whenever she was awake she was working,
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9:10 - 9:12and she really, really thrived on that,
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9:12 - 9:15and still does today.
GG: Yes. Yes. -
9:15 - 9:17PM: Installing solar panels on the top of her house,
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9:17 - 9:18I have to say.
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9:18 - 9:22So after the tragic incident, Mark,
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9:22 - 9:24you decided to resign
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9:24 - 9:25your position as an astronaut,
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9:25 - 9:27even though you were supposed to take
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9:27 - 9:29the next space mission.
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9:29 - 9:30Everybody, including Gabby,
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9:30 - 9:32talked you into going back,
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9:32 - 9:34and you did end up taking.
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9:34 - 9:37MK: Kind of. The day after Gabby was injured,
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9:37 - 9:39I called my boss, the chief astronaut,
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9:39 - 9:41Dr. Peggy Whitson, and I said,
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9:41 - 9:43"Peggy, I know I'm launching in space
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9:43 - 9:45in three months from now.
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9:45 - 9:47Gabby's in a coma. I'm in Tucson.
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9:47 - 9:49You've got to find a replacement for me."
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9:49 - 9:51So I didn't actually resign from being an astronaut,
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9:51 - 9:54but I gave up my job and they found a replacement.
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9:54 - 9:57Months later, maybe about two months later,
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9:57 - 9:59I started about getting my job back,
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9:59 - 10:01which is something,
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10:01 - 10:03when you become this primary caregiver person,
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10:03 - 10:06which some people in the audience here
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10:06 - 10:08have certainly been in that position,
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10:08 - 10:10it's a challenging role but at some point
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10:10 - 10:13you've got to figure out when
you're going to get your life back, -
10:13 - 10:14and at the time, I couldn't ask Gabby
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10:14 - 10:18if she wanted me to go fly in the space shuttle again.
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10:18 - 10:21But I knew she was—
GG: Yes. Yes. Yes. -
10:21 - 10:23MK: She was the biggest
supporter of my career, -
10:23 - 10:25and I knew it was the right thing to do.
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10:25 - 10:27PM: And yet I'm trying to imagine, Mark,
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10:27 - 10:30what that was like, going off onto a mission,
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10:30 - 10:34one presumes safely,
but it's never a guarantee, -
10:34 - 10:37and knowing that Gabby is —
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10:37 - 10:40MK: Well not only was
she still in the hospital, -
10:40 - 10:42on the third day of that flight,
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10:42 - 10:44literally while I was
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10:44 - 10:45rendezvousing with the space station,
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10:45 - 10:49and you've got two vehicles
moving at 17,500 miles an hour, -
10:49 - 10:51I'm actually flying it, looking out the window,
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10:51 - 10:53a bunch of computers,
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10:53 - 10:56Gabby was in brain surgery,
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10:56 - 10:59literally at that time having the final surgery
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10:59 - 11:02to replace the piece of skull
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11:02 - 11:03that they took out on the day she was injured
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11:03 - 11:07with a prosthetic, yeah, which
is the whole side of her head. -
11:07 - 11:09Now if any of you guys would ever come
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11:09 - 11:12to our house in Tucson for the first time,
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11:12 - 11:14Gabby would usually go up to the freezer
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11:14 - 11:16and pull out the piece of Tupperware
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11:16 - 11:19that has the real skull. (Laughter)
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11:19 - 11:22GG: The real skull.
MK: Which freaks people out, sometimes. -
11:22 - 11:26PM: Is that for appetizer or dessert, Mark?
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11:26 - 11:30MK: Well, it just gets the conversation going.
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11:30 - 11:32PM: But there was a lot
of conversation about -
11:32 - 11:35something you did, Gabby, after Mark's flight.
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11:35 - 11:39You had to make another
step of courage too, -
11:39 - 11:42because here was
Congress deadlocked again, -
11:42 - 11:48and you got out of the rehabilitation center,
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11:48 - 11:51got yourself to Washington
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11:51 - 11:54so that you could walk
on the floor of the House -- -
11:54 - 11:56I can barely talk about this
without getting emotional — -
11:56 - 11:59and cast a vote which could have been
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11:59 - 12:01the deciding vote.
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12:01 - 12:04GG: The debt ceiling. The debt ceiling.
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12:04 - 12:07MK: Yeah, we had that vote,
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12:07 - 12:09I guess about five months after Gabby was injured,
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12:09 - 12:11and she made this bold decision to go back.
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12:11 - 12:14A very controversial vote,
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12:14 - 12:15but she wanted to be there
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12:15 - 12:18to have her voice heard one more time.
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12:18 - 12:19PM: And after that, resigned
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12:19 - 12:23and began what has been a very slow
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12:23 - 12:26and challenging recovery.
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12:26 - 12:29What's life like, day to day?
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12:29 - 12:32MK: Well, that's Gabby's service dog Nelson.
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12:32 - 12:33GG: Nelson.
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12:33 - 12:35MK: New member of our family.
GG: Yes, yes. -
12:35 - 12:38MK: And we got him from a—
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12:38 - 12:40GG: Prison. Murder.
MK: We have a lot of connections -
12:40 - 12:43with prisons, apparently. (Laughter)
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12:43 - 12:44Nelson came from a prison,
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12:44 - 12:49raised by a murderer in Massachusetts.
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12:49 - 12:53But she did a great job with this dog.
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12:53 - 12:55He's a fabulous service dog.
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12:55 - 12:58PM: So Gabby, what have you learned
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12:58 - 13:03from your experiences the past few years?
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13:03 - 13:09MK: Yeah, what have you learned?
GG: Deeper. Deeper. -
13:09 - 13:10PM: Your relationship is deeper.
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13:10 - 13:14It has to be. You're together all the time now.
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13:14 - 13:16MK: I imagine being grateful, too, right?
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13:16 - 13:17GG: Grateful.
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13:17 - 13:19PM: This is a picture of
family and friends gathering, -
13:19 - 13:24but I love these pictures because they show
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13:24 - 13:27the Gabby and Mark relationship now.
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13:27 - 13:30And you describe it, Gabby, over and over,
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13:30 - 13:36as deeper on so many levels. Yes?
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13:36 - 13:37MK: I think when something tragic happens
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13:37 - 13:40in a family, it can pull people together.
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13:40 - 13:42Here's us watching the space shuttle
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13:42 - 13:44fly over Tucson,
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13:44 - 13:45the Space Shuttle Endeavour,
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13:45 - 13:48the one that I was the
commander on its last flight, -
13:48 - 13:51on its final flight on top of an airplane
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13:51 - 13:54on a 747 on its way to L.A.,
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13:54 - 13:59NASA was kind enough
to have it fly over Tucson. -
13:59 - 14:03PM: And of course, the two of you
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14:03 - 14:04go through these challenges
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14:04 - 14:07of a slow and difficult recovery,
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14:07 - 14:09and yet, Gabby, how do you maintain
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14:09 - 14:13your optimism and positive outlook?
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14:13 - 14:16GG: I want to make the world a better place.
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14:16 - 14:24(Applause)
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14:24 - 14:25PM: And you're doing that
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14:25 - 14:28even though your recovery has to remain
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14:28 - 14:29front and center for both of you.
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14:29 - 14:32You are people who have done service
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14:32 - 14:35to your country and you
are continuing to do that -
14:35 - 14:38with a new initiative, a new purpose.
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14:38 - 14:42And Gabby, what's on the agenda now?
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14:42 - 14:45GG: Americans for Responsible Solutions.
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14:45 - 14:49MK: That's our political action committee,
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14:49 - 14:53where we are trying to
get members of Congress -
14:53 - 14:56to take a more serious look at
gun violence in this country, -
14:56 - 14:57and to try to
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14:57 - 14:59pass some reasonable legislation.
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14:59 - 15:07GG: Yes. Yes. (Applause)
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15:07 - 15:10MK: You know, this affected
us very personally, -
15:10 - 15:12but it wasn't what happened
to Gabby that got us involved. -
15:12 - 15:16It was really the 20 murdered first graders
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15:16 - 15:19and kindergartners in Newtown, Connecticut,
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15:19 - 15:22and the response that we saw afterwards
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15:22 - 15:25where -- well, look what's happened so far.
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15:25 - 15:27So far the national response has been
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15:27 - 15:29pretty much to do nothing.
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15:29 - 15:30We're trying to change that.
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15:30 - 15:32PM: There have been 11 mass shootings
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15:32 - 15:33since Newtown,
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15:33 - 15:36a school a week in the first
two months of last year. -
15:36 - 15:38What are you doing that's different
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15:38 - 15:40than other efforts to balance
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15:40 - 15:43rights for gun ownership and responsibilities?
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15:43 - 15:45MK: We're gun owners,
we support gun rights. -
15:45 - 15:48At the same time, we've
got to do everything we can -
15:48 - 15:50to keep guns out of the hands of criminals
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15:50 - 15:52and the dangerously mentally ill.
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15:52 - 15:54It's not too difficult to do that.
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15:54 - 15:56This issue, like many others,
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15:56 - 16:00has become very polarizing and political,
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16:00 - 16:02and we're trying to bring some balance
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16:02 - 16:04to the debate in Washington.
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16:04 - 16:06PM: Thank you both for that effort.
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16:06 - 16:09And not surprisingly for
this woman of courage -
16:09 - 16:11and of a sense of adventure,
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16:11 - 16:13you just keep challenging yourself,
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16:13 - 16:15and the sky seems to be the limit.
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16:15 - 16:17I have to share this video
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16:17 - 16:19of your most recent adventure.
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16:19 - 16:22Take a look at Gabby.
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16:22 - 16:26MK: This is a couple months ago.
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16:30 - 16:32(Video) MK: You okay? You did great.
GG: Yes, it's gorgeous. Thank you. -
16:32 - 16:39Good stuff. Gorgeous. Oh, thank you.
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16:39 - 16:43Mountains. Gorgeous mountains.
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16:47 - 16:49(Applause)
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16:49 - 16:52MK: Let me just say
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16:52 - 16:54one of the guys that Gabby jumped with
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16:54 - 16:56that day was a Navy SEAL
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16:56 - 16:58who she met in Afghanistan
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16:58 - 17:00who was injured in combat,
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17:00 - 17:01had a really rough time.
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17:01 - 17:03Gabby visited him
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17:03 - 17:05when he was at Bethesda
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17:05 - 17:07and went through a really tough period.
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17:07 - 17:08He started doing better.
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17:08 - 17:11Months later, Gabby was shot in the head,
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17:11 - 17:12and then he supported her
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17:12 - 17:14while she was in the hospital in Houston.
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17:14 - 17:16So they have a very, very nice connection.
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17:16 - 17:17GG: Yes.
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17:17 - 17:19PM: What a wonderful moment.
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17:19 - 17:21Because this is the TED stage,
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17:21 - 17:24Gabby, I know you worked very hard
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17:24 - 17:27to think of the ideas that you wanted to leave
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17:27 - 17:29with this audience.
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17:29 - 17:33GG: Thank you.
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17:35 - 17:37Hello, everyone.
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17:37 - 17:41Thank you for inviting us here today.
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17:41 - 17:43It's been a long, hard haul,
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17:43 - 17:47but I'm getting better.
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17:47 - 17:48I'm working hard,
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17:48 - 17:52lots of therapy -- speech therapy,
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17:52 - 17:55physical therapy, and yoga too.
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17:55 - 17:58But my spirit is strong as ever.
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17:58 - 18:02I'm still fighting to make
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18:02 - 18:05and you can too.
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18:05 - 18:08Get involved with your community.
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18:08 - 18:12Be a leader. Set an example.
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18:12 - 18:15Be passionate. Be courageous.
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18:15 - 18:19Be your best. Thank you very much.
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18:19 - 18:21(Applause)
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18:21 - 18:25MK: Thank you.
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18:25 - 18:28(Applause)
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18:28 - 18:32MK: Thank you everybody.
GG: Bye bye. (Applause)
- Title:
- Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
- Speaker:
- Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly
- Description:
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On January 8, 2011, Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot in the head while meeting constituents in her home town of Tucson, Arizona. Her husband, the astronaut Mark Kelly, immediately flew to be by her side. In this emotional conversation with Pat Mitchell, the pair describe their lives both before and after the accident -- and describe their campaign for responsible gun ownership.
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- closed TED
- Project:
- TEDTalks
- Duration:
- 18:48
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