Hero Giffords intern Daniel Hernandez to sit in Michele Obama's box for honored guests at SOTU

[The Straight Story]

Hero Intern Daniel Hernandez: ‘Call to Action for Public Service’


ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ hero intern, Daniel Hernandez, caps a whirlwind of a month with a seat in First Lady Michele Obama’s box for honored guests at the State of the Union address tonight.

In town for the big night, Hernandez told us on ABC’s “Top Line” today that it’s “bittersweet” to be a guest of the first lady, under the circumstances that leave his boss hospitalized with a gunshot wound.

But he said he looks forward to meeting the family of Christina Taylor Green, the slain 9-year-old whose parents are also guests of the first lady, for the first time tonight.

“I'm looking forward to being able to sit down with them and just have a conversation,” Hernandez told us. “I think it’s going to be very cathartic for myself and I'm hoping for them as well, to be able to just talk about the events and also kind of coming together. I think it’s certainly helped a lot of the other people that are involved in the trauma.”

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/01/hero-intern-daniel-hernandez-call-to-action-for-public-service-.html?xid=huffpost

[ananda]

1. That's a nice gesture.

nt

[jberryhill]

2. Is that the actual headline?

Oh my.

Must. Fight. Impulse. To. Snark.

That's, um... quite an honor.

(Edit: No.. that's not the actual headline. You might consider a judicious edit to avoid an unfortunate slang connotation.)