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Speeches from the Multi-faith Vigil Honoring the Victims of the Shooting in Midtown Manhattan · Go News To Go: More Good News

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  Speaker 1: And thank you for taking some time being I'm joining
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  Speaker 1: us for a lot typing time of reflection for the
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  Speaker 1: now shooting had happened in our believe.
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  Speaker 2: It's not at city yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: We're here to share some prayers, some time, to get
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  Speaker 3: a comfort, to show condolences, to show love to those
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  Speaker 3: who might have been lost.
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  Speaker 4: We're glad to be all together buy as Adams. I'm
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  Speaker 4: going by my uncle and a stall of great leaders
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  Speaker 4: and senior officials within THEE.
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  Speaker 5: Adams administration.
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  Speaker 4: So may the deal display of our.
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  Speaker 3: Aid and our resilience to get up with an invocation
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  Speaker 3: out on patter called nicls mica.
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  Speaker 2: M lether to mister may or, bringing us together, listen to.
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  Speaker 6: During this time I killed, let us play if anybody
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  Speaker 6: inst listen to the Lord become to me.
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  Speaker 7: Or be approach you in shock and infus and standing
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  Speaker 7: with me in our group and dist.
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  Speaker 4: H be coach.
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  Speaker 7: In our time.
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  Speaker 2: Or d the complessness unity and now look for the
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  Speaker 2: families of those back in killed.
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  Speaker 5: Or who play the strength in this.
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  Speaker 6: Time and the communities that have been of the bed
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  Speaker 6: for the profound week that be all fen for those
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  Speaker 6: who have lost.
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  Speaker 2: They love, assist a friend.
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  Speaker 7: A cord.
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  Speaker 4: For ny.
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  Speaker 2: Who have lost in color and for many trusted times.
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  Speaker 8: Lord, in the face of violence, what could you Lord
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  Speaker 8: be played your mother this? Maybe you love those you
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  Speaker 8: are profound and maybe you love those?
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  Speaker 4: Are you deceive you? Or I ask to hearts all
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  Speaker 4: those do you have as here?
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  Speaker 7: That's on?
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  Speaker 4: What about great city? Do you have a name of
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  Speaker 4: about relations? Ad and it?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Take your past, uh play whether you say in Europe
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  Speaker 4: lest any sister?
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  Speaker 7: How now maybe out there the siftem you new roupers,
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  Speaker 7: have you fall from college? You all talk about the
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  Speaker 7: distance that the type uh prescribe to any play or
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  Speaker 7: focus and missing. But you see the listening you see
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  Speaker 7: p see gives you around High State like very must
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  Speaker 7: fool to.
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  Speaker 4: Play there everything to prove how montroop the city lives
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  Speaker 4: of those in the shit ve in our the other research.
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  Speaker 7: This is a extreme, It's extreme time be a mean
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  Speaker 7: most of them. As I sat, huh you both to
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  Speaker 7: say around Dad.
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  Speaker 4: Learned dad he was his only son.
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  Speaker 7: Hm.
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  Speaker 4: It was difficult to me to go through that played
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  Speaker 4: in last night to do my role as the mayor.
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  Speaker 4: You things go on, you may I sort of man,
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  Speaker 4: and I thought about my dam my youngest son that
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  Speaker 4: I watched to the raids, how much I prowed to
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  Speaker 4: how much I gave my life or.
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  Speaker 7: The most a time and honey, the most ap those
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  Speaker 7: things had to happen to be silent. See you are
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  Speaker 7: supposed to try you their family.
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  Speaker 4: Charis or musing to buried there to.
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  Speaker 7: The sisters actor NaNs used to listener and I walked
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  Speaker 7: through the building the sort of blood treat video the
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  Speaker 7: level of vinings and I have not Greekness at that
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  Speaker 7: level before and the intersectionality of this body that I
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  Speaker 7: had then the building had the officers I worked as
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  Speaker 7: a man room and stopped them attended and people wanna
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  Speaker 7: to buy park fiven as a young man, and you
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  Speaker 7: had to walk through and see the limits the finance
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  Speaker 7: of that another for it, and they don't reflected on
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  Speaker 7: two thousand a.
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  Speaker 4: Monlen groom the channels attack in the city.
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  Speaker 7: When the group of listening with officers came to me
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  Speaker 7: because they were being victimizers because of the attack and
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  Speaker 7: because of their faith to believe, I joined them. When
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  Speaker 7: you move forward start an organization that in put real
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  Speaker 7: personal offices to be part of the US in the East.
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  Speaker 4: Department and their ranks and numbers have grown about the years.
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  Speaker 7: They bring with them, a level of faith, a level
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  Speaker 7: of family, a level of committed, a level of dedication.
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  Speaker 7: But we also be proud of it because it is
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  Speaker 7: a signature of who we are as a singer.
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  Speaker 4: This is the wrong New York is not a person
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  Speaker 4: to drive across the course.
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  Speaker 7: And come here. They can make this hat of nuge.
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  Speaker 7: We are New York a different day to police in
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  Speaker 7: different houses of lacy. We need our faith community at
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  Speaker 7: this moment to do something that is more powerful than
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  Speaker 7: any legislative beginner or that in prayer.
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  Speaker 4: But it's time to pray. That it's time to bread
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  Speaker 4: into our faith and understand the significance of the power
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  Speaker 4: of prayer and what the Reponsipans officer is ron it's the.
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  Speaker 7: Symbol of the great use of the city. UH ranks
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  Speaker 7: had increased been all the fifteent afric and community groups
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  Speaker 7: from South PacifiCan Americas. The age to across the literalist
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  Speaker 7: to receive officers that are our ambasketballs in their community.
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  Speaker 7: And there are weldented places the stakes, the Unisity Pystal Department,
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  Speaker 7: the representative teams of the whole depensity of all the
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  Speaker 7: entire street, but more important that the child might be lost. Moneys.
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  Speaker 7: They have advocated for smart, sensible running home. You cannot
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  Speaker 7: give any the minding of the persons. It does not
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  Speaker 7: have a unific the passator and between and the bullets
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  Speaker 7: to walk into any building in America and creatatic that
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  Speaker 7: the stake of the appurts. We cannot respond to sisters,
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  Speaker 7: then laws who difference.
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  Speaker 4: It must be responded through the legislation.
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  Speaker 7: It's time to come the point of the society where
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  Speaker 7: automatic weapons are as easy to hit as itself. But
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  Speaker 7: we need to rethink when we are as a society
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  Speaker 7: that there is a level of comfortability to carry or
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  Speaker 7: give you the record of the magic free. Yes we
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  Speaker 7: can save you. The Savins city in America, Yes we
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  Speaker 7: can talk about govern have run the leven in the
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  Speaker 7: pristis Lne. Yes we have vocal records of the votes
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  Speaker 7: and mootess and other sides.
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  Speaker 4: And then go to mister Rivers City. Yes, uh, we
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  Speaker 4: can talk about the co were almost a thousand guns
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  Speaker 4: in the group up the streets. But that is how
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  Speaker 4: to come.
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  Speaker 7: That's a relationship for the families lost their loved ones
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  Speaker 7: inside people forty five pop favenes and not only those
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  Speaker 7: to loss loved ones, but the physical and mental trauma
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  Speaker 7: that the five place those in pross every day. We
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  Speaker 7: wanna pay our proporate security interests. We put together the
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  Speaker 7: pleas of security consulting for one of our comperate leaders
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  Speaker 7: that sat down with this new hunt to make waves
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  Speaker 7: of how we resure who are safe.
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  Speaker 4: We you go to a place of the printed to
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  Speaker 4: drill that we hold actor shooting drills. I wanna pay.
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  Speaker 7: Good and management and good they did for mture they
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  Speaker 7: had safe bounds and safe stations for they.
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  Speaker 4: Of course just gonna be able to lock the place.
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  Speaker 4: I wanna pay them for.
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  Speaker 7: Assure you that we had actress shooting students grills to
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  Speaker 7: make sure.
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  Speaker 4: That employees know what to do. That is a responsible
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  Speaker 4: benator or employers.
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  Speaker 7: I wanna thank those participating those bills and I believe
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  Speaker 7: the saved lives.
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  Speaker 4: I wanna thank the.
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  Speaker 7: Men the women of the pristal department who was conscious
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  Speaker 7: that they were running into the building when actual shooter
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  Speaker 7: was on.
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  Speaker 4: The ground, not knowing the rusts in the building or any.
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  Speaker 7: Form the considering every advice because they're waiting to track them.
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  Speaker 4: I wanna thank them for their response because we're running
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  Speaker 4: to ward's dangerous when we all want to run hunt,
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  Speaker 4: I wait for that. That's what the men the women
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  Speaker 4: of the Crystal department to every day and our law
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  Speaker 4: enforcement causes what they do.
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  Speaker 7: And yeah, and when I ask played the scot you
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  Speaker 7: realize that actually if you.
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  Speaker 4: Have the personal touches of understanding the role that we
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  Speaker 4: be need of the safety play in our city, well.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, a grid of the gills a rather the response
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  Speaker 7: to grade up the safe room can grab them all up.
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  Speaker 5: We come to the south.
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  Speaker 7: That isn't in brightening on our society where we have
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  Speaker 7: to practice what they to you that into our buildings.
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  Speaker 4: Of our school. That's not the city or country we
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  Speaker 4: want to live in.
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  Speaker 7: There's no consolation surprise that we can avoid ourselves because
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  Speaker 7: with a parent.
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  Speaker 4: People with their here guts our house and the start.
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  Speaker 4: That is not who we want to be as a society.
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  Speaker 4: I don't wanna go to a visual where your love
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  Speaker 4: is a child.
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  Speaker 7: This house is lost between food to the sister's finance.
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  Speaker 7: That's not the city I went from living. It's far
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  Speaker 7: toil up the.
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  Speaker 4: Country I want to live in.
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  Speaker 7: We can do better, and there's been too many mass
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  Speaker 7: shoes in our society, nor proliferation of guns and records and.
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  Speaker 4: Ease access to them must come to a stop. And
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  Speaker 4: the numbers are just heart.
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  Speaker 7: Billet's apart in my ways and death while community and
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  Speaker 7: even when it actually really hits the d of the
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  Speaker 7: union beings and refect me. Your pain prints a part
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  Speaker 7: of the anatomy of hollow society.
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  Speaker 4: We deserve better. I wanted to commit my life just
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  Speaker 4: as I did when I would. I WoT up to Bess.
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  Speaker 7: It's will us keep coming, you know, protect the concili
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  Speaker 7: and ground into the city.
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  Speaker 4: How to do it?
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  Speaker 7: As the mayor of this city, I personally feel responsible
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  Speaker 7: what happened to each one of us previctims of this huson.
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  Speaker 4: It's my job to keep you say, That's what I
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  Speaker 4: swore to do. You and I took over the hall
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  Speaker 4: when committed to join it. I love beIN high life
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  Speaker 4: to do it right. Brace on Hart.
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  Speaker 7: When I see what happened to this instant New York
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  Speaker 7: flow me apart took something to wait for me. But
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  Speaker 7: if he committed to what peoples good, she can love
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  Speaker 7: to see. I wanna thank the men if women.
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  Speaker 4: Who are here that all pain peoples the people, because
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  Speaker 4: I don't care what you're gonna say. It's time to
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  Speaker 4: pray y, not it's time to pray kay. There's some
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  Speaker 4: things that are beyond. That's who we are, the lives
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  Speaker 4: and our ability to put out of buying any of.
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  Speaker 7: The experience togevi and the sovereign posses. A hun had
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  Speaker 7: the bes, we would wrap my arms and.
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  Speaker 4: Around O say it's large. We drop my arms around.
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  Speaker 4: I work for other wigeons.
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  Speaker 7: We be here and that's what we do that when
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  Speaker 7: you are obsta, you know the possible knows time.
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  Speaker 4: So how display of me because we know how to
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  Speaker 4: do that. But to do the best. We been here before.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to the difficult times that you will.
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  Speaker 7: But we saw the country, our residius and all ability
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  Speaker 7: stand Paul, this is what this shit is.
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  Speaker 4: Qua. I wouldn't think you could come in out nay.
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  Speaker 7: You sons of course the Vigtens you would decide talk
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  Speaker 7: after you won't always would you mentioned you might always
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  Speaker 7: stand up to your faith hate. Let you see how
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  Speaker 7: plen it all to govern. Stay with your books. Thankful
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  Speaker 7: for being yours.
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  Speaker 4: And for the hope.
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  Speaker 9: I wanna thank you again there Adams, for everything you
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  Speaker 9: have done for this city and continue to do, uh,
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  Speaker 9: particularly keeping all of us saves mission. There's just a
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  Speaker 9: picture one of the most how those people that ever meet,
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  Speaker 9: but she the veryes di gratitude for the current. Here
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  Speaker 9: is this lady in this moment and standing up for
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  Speaker 9: the hatred and the violence and supporting ammininity and right beauty.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you to miss the things?
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  Speaker 5: What wrong would be don if all of you come
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  Speaker 5: out here tonight? The hot evening can emotionally mean They
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  Speaker 5: say that grief is the price you paid for luck?
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  Speaker 9: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: Whach?
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  Speaker 5: There were four individuals.
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  Speaker 4: It just a little more than.
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  Speaker 9: Twenty four hours ago, walked reserve. They were so well
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  Speaker 9: loved by their parents, a husband, the wife. They shouldn't
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  Speaker 9: they're co opens that the pain is so spearing right
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  Speaker 9: now it seems unended. As I called the young husband,
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  Speaker 9: they told me the sixth great pride about his wife
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  Speaker 9: and her career and husband was raising her twelve year
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  Speaker 9: old and fourteen year old.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know what to say. He's like, I've been
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  Speaker 5: married the man I cherished my wife. I'm a mom.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what to say to you to lift
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  Speaker 5: this pain off your heart.
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  Speaker 4: I want you to know.
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  Speaker 5: That we love me. There's a city and of a state.
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  Speaker 5: We love you, and we are also traumatized for what
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  Speaker 5: you've had to go through.
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  Speaker 7: All of that.
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  Speaker 5: And I spoke to the young widow, an expectant mother
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  Speaker 5: up to expecting her third child. I spoke to her
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  Speaker 5: today and I just try to convey again that sense.
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  Speaker 9: Of compassion, but all this as a human being here.
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  Speaker 5: I said, there anything we can do for her? And
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  Speaker 5: then are broken English, he said, pray for us. I
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  Speaker 5: am so proud.
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  Speaker 9: It's a mayor and others have gathered here tonight will
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  Speaker 9: allow us to have that moment of prayer to lift
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  Speaker 9: up these families or asking for our prayers, and we
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  Speaker 9: will do that tonight and going forward, promise for that.
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  Speaker 5: We'll keep that promise as even and we're hearing a
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  Speaker 5: lot about hearts. Hearts pronotes love.
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  Speaker 9: So that I cannot stop to think about it. That
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  Speaker 9: iconic logo that defines all us.
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  Speaker 5: I love New York, the big red heart in the
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  Speaker 5: mile them.
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  Speaker 4: We see it everywhere.
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  Speaker 5: Tonight, my friends, that heart is broken because there's flective
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  Speaker 5: pain shared by all of us. There's one thing I know, though,
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  Speaker 5: that that heart will meant, but we'll hear because the
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  Speaker 5: art is the We are strong.
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  Speaker 9: We have been tested over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 9: We always come together and trag you and lift each
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  Speaker 9: other up. That's what makes us so special here in
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  Speaker 9: New York. And I'll also echo the Mayor's marks. But yes,
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  Speaker 9: we'll offer condolencies involved and compassion, prayers above all. But
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  Speaker 9: if this nation, this is yet another moment to do
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  Speaker 9: what is right that they've been blected to do for decade,
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  Speaker 9: and shame on them.
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  Speaker 3: This is the time to.
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  Speaker 9: Stand up and say no more slaughter by a weapon
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  Speaker 9: of mass destruction designed to kill people on the battlefield,
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  Speaker 9: Not in our buildings here in the great city of York.
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  Speaker 4: That era.
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  Speaker 9: To bene too many vigils to live's loss. But at
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  Speaker 9: the school, a concert, but a grocery store in the
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  Speaker 9: city of Buffalo, my hometown. Just three years ago, we
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  Speaker 9: lost ten of my neighbors randomly. Selection Yeah, yes, then,
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  Speaker 9: my friends and I know how.
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  Speaker 5: It can start.
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  Speaker 9: Congress must have the courage to say we are a
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  Speaker 9: great nation, our citizens deserve better. We respect all rights,
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  Speaker 9: but no one should claim as a concert so right
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  Speaker 9: the ability.
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  Speaker 5: To bear an army.
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  Speaker 9: But I assure you are founding fathers did not contemplate
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  Speaker 9: when our constitution was written, so that must end now
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  Speaker 9: by saying, we take our voices, we march, we continue
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  Speaker 9: in the lives of others we've lost, we.
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  Speaker 5: Must speak out in their names. So this moment is
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  Speaker 5: not lost. And I'm proud to team up with the
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  Speaker 5: mayor and others who want to join in that fight
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  Speaker 5: once again. It's not a new fight, but once and
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  Speaker 5: for all, let's put this to bed.
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  Speaker 9: We say our nation deserves safety and security and to
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  Speaker 9: know when they say good bye the loved one they
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  Speaker 9: go off to work in the morning, or their police officers,
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  Speaker 9: office worker, they're gonna see their family again at the
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  Speaker 9: end of the day. That did not happen yesterday, but
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  Speaker 9: it must happen going forward. Otherwives, Who are we the
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  Speaker 9: people if we can't stand up for each other. God
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  Speaker 9: bless the NYPD, Hey, God bless the families whose lives
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  Speaker 9: have been shredded and torn apart. May God bless the
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  Speaker 9: people of this great city in the state of New York.
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  Speaker 9: Above all, God bless the United States of America, and
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  Speaker 9: Heaven help her in our time of need.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you very much, great to carry a particular.
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  Speaker 9: Weight as being more in one of our own officers,
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  Speaker 9: the Rum, the New York City Police officer who represented
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  Speaker 9: the very best of what our city has to offer.
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  Speaker 5: He served this city the quiet strength, an unwavering purpose.
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  Speaker 5: He didn't ask for attention, he didn't ask for fras.
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  Speaker 5: He simply showed up a tour after tour and did
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  Speaker 5: the work that holds this city together.
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  Speaker 10: In the Jewish tradition, when someone passes, we say, then,
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  Speaker 10: of APAs, may their memory be a blessing. It's not
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  Speaker 10: a comfort, it's a cull to make sure that what
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  Speaker 10: was good in someone's life doesn't end with their death.
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  Speaker 5: Because a memory doesn't become a blessing.
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  Speaker 9: On its own, It becomes one when we carry forward
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  Speaker 9: what was best in them, their courage, their kindness, their
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  Speaker 9: sense of duty, their love for others.
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  Speaker 5: And even now, in these first painful.
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  Speaker 9: Hours, we see that beginning the people who knew them
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  Speaker 9: best were already carrying that blessing and the stories they
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  Speaker 9: share in the silence, safety, in the depth.
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  Speaker 5: Of the loss that they hold together. That kind of
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  Speaker 5: love doesn't disappear, that kind of service doesn't end. Alan
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  Speaker 5: Julia a beautiful friend, Leslie a police officer, the devil Islam.
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  Speaker 5: They were taken from her arms in violence. They now
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  Speaker 5: rest in God's arms in peace. They their nomys be
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  Speaker 5: a last.
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  Speaker 10: And Delee is not into tempting Shin, but to lives.
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  Speaker 8: From for the.
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  Speaker 7: Is, the k and the part
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  Speaker 3: And the landing.