Vox Populi:

In a poignant and rallying message, Susan Bro, the mother of Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer, spoke beautifully about her daughter’s life — and how all of us can honor her legacy.

There is surely no anguish comparable to that which comes from losing a child.

And when that child is taken at a young age, and in a violent manner on public display, the pain must be even more singular.

Heather Heyer was just 32 years old when a white supremacist murdered her with his car during the violent, neo-Nazi riot in Charlottesville, Virginia, Saturday. Her death, occurring in front of the world, was jarring and horrifying.

And her mother, Susan Bro, is living through trauma the likes of which most of us will never know.

But she is not letting the bigots who silenced her daughter’s voice take hers away, too. And at Heather’s memorial service Wednesday, Susan spoke beautifully and poignantly about what she wants the nation and the world to take away from her child’s life, and to turn into Heather’s legacy.

“But here’s what I want to say to you today,” Susan told the large crowd assembled at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville. “This could be a storm in a teacup and it could all be for nothing. I could’ve said, ‘Let’s do don’t this publicly, let’s have a small, private funeral.’ But you know, that’s not who Heather was. Anybody who knew Heather said, ‘Yeah, this is the way she had to go, big and large.’ Had to have the world involved, because that’s my child.”

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