On Oct. 14, President Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk, a month after he assassinated by a radical extremist at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, and which was graciously accepted by Erika Kirk on behalf of her husband.
It was the President’s way of thanking Mrs. Kirk for carrying on her husband’s legacy of free speech and open, civil discourse in our politics, particularly America’s young people. The nation continues to share her loss and prays for the return to the civil society that Charlie Kirk represented and the end of the scourge of political violence and extremism he warned against — and which is a growing threat to our liberty.
And we have been touched by Erika Kirk’s words that are helping America to heal.