Christina Green, the 9-year-old girl who was killed this past weekend in the Tucson shootings, will be remembered today amongst family, friends, and classmates.  Green was born on September 11, 2001, and a flag from atop the World Trade Center will be present at her funeral, according to CBS News.

Green was one of the six people killed in a Safeway parking lot in Tucson, Arizona on Saturday, during an assassination attempt on U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords' life. 

President Obama spoke last night at a memorial service for the dead and the wounded, and was empathetic and eloquent, according to the Guardian.  "Most affecting, [Obama] spoke of Christina Taylor Green, the nine-year-old girl born on 11 September 2001 – the president, doubtless thinking of his own daughters, seeming to brim with emotion, at one point emitting a noise somewhere between a sigh and a suppressed sob," stated the Guardian.

Green had just recently been elected to student council at Mesa Verde Elementary School. A neighbor brought her to meet Representative Giffords because of the girl's interest in leadership and politics.  She was the only girl on her baseball team. 

For more on the Tucson shootings, see below: 

* Outside McKale Center: Waiting for the Memorial

* High School Senior Reflects on Tucson Violence

* Young Faces in Tucson Shootings

by Patty Talahongva

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