Dorothy Height was known as the \u201cGodmother of American civil rights\u201d and once marched with Martin Luther King Jr. Dorothy passed away in 2010 at the age of 98. She had continued to campaign long into her nineties.<\/p>\n
In 2012, twenty children, aged between six and seven years old, and six teachers were shot d3ad by Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook elementary school.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can only hope it helps for you to know that you\u2019re not alone in your grief,\u201d shared an emotional Obama in a speech following the attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have wept with you, we\u2019ve pulled our children tight.\u201d Barack Obama\u2019s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, passed away from canc3r on November 3 2008 in the last day of his campaign for presidency.<\/p>\n
He mentioned her during a speech at the University of North Carolina.\u201cShe has gone home,\u201d he said, before telling crowds her loss was \u201chard to talk about\u201d.<\/p>\n
Daniel Inouye was a Hawaiian US senator for 49 years, between 1963 and 2012.<\/p>\n
After Inouye\u2019s d3ath, Barack Obama\u2019s career had been inspired by the Asian\/American politician because he was born in Hawaii.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way he commanded the respect of an entire nation, I think it hinted to me what might be possible in my own life,\u201d Obama said in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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