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: Thank you and I want to welcome all of you here today. And I very much appreciate your coming. I want to thank those whom you will hear from in a few minutes including FEMA Director James Lee Witt; and USAID Deputy Administrator Hattie Babbitt. Congressman James Moody (ph) who runs Interaction. We also have with us OPM Director Janice LeChance (ph) and Morrison Webb, executive vice president of AT&T.
I also want to recognize the heroic contributions of Refugees International, an organization that is on the front lines of humanitarian disasters around the world. And they lost three relief workers in a terrible car accident this week in Albania, who were trying to reach the refugee camps.
Before I begin, I want to say a word about the terrible school shooting that occurred yesterday in Littleton, Colorado. I'm sure all of us are joined together in mourning the loss of so many young lives. And we are sending our prayers and sympathy to the families, the loved ones, the classmates of the victims and the entire community. It's hard to imagine this happening again. And at the extraordinary time that we heard about it, I think all of us hoped it were not true.
When we look into the eyes of our own children we cannot even imagine the fear that parents in Littleton must have felt waiting to find out if they had lost their children.
And it is very hard to just comfort a child who seeing it on television, is afraid. Imagine what it is like for the young people who saw their friends die before their eyes. Even if we cannot comprehend or imagine the magnitude of the pain that is filling the hearts of the people of Littleton, we can help with our prayers and our hopes by doing all that is possible to make sure the children there receive the counseling and support they need. Whatever medical and psychological help might be required.
: And more than that we can, once again, recommit ourselves to insuring that all classroom
