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>>My daughter's recovery is nothing short of astounding. I owe you all a debt of gratitude for your prayers and kind thoughts. I can assure you the rest of my life will be spent repaying you. Her condition improves daily and we hope to have her home within the next week to ten days. The road to recovery will be long, but we have every confidence she will be just fine. She was moved out of the ICU and is responding to medication in ways the doctors would privately describe as "miraculous."
I began today looking into the mirror and asking myself just how to accomplish repaying you for my precious Olivia's life.
The answer was quite simple: we have an obligation to one another and to those who will follow to leave this country a better one than we found it. This fight will be endless, I envision it encompassing the rest of my generation's lives, but it must be achieved if the America we know and love is to survive.
We face immense difficulties ahead, but through our grace and perseverance we recapture this nation's glory and justice for all.<<
May 15, 2004
John Mackenzie
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