Victims still healing a year after Tucson shooting
By Tim Gaynor and Brad Poole
TUCSON, Arizona | Fri Jan 6, 2012 10:35am EST
(Reuters) - Congressional staffer Ron Barber was standing in a receiving line next to Representative Gabrielle Giffords at her first outreach event of the year when the gunman opened fire at point-blank range.
Moments later he was lying in a pool of his own blood on the sidewalk when Giffords and fellow aide Gabe Zimmerman fell beside him outside the Tucson area grocery store.
"I saw the congresswoman being shot, I saw myself being shot, I saw Gabe die in front of me," recalls Barber, 66, Giffords's district director who was shot in the face and thigh.
"They are memories that will never go away," added the aide, who has since been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
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