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One of my little boys just kept saying, ‘I love you, I love you, please don’t die with me.’ I never thought I was going to die. The whole time I just kept screaming to them, ‘Quit worrying, we’re fine, we’re fine.’ And I’m very loud, so I just hoped they could hear me because I could hear them screaming. [One girl] was sobbing, and I was like, ‘We’re going to be fine, we’re going to be fine, I’m protecting you.’ And then I said a few prayers. ‘God please take care of my kids.’

RHONDA CROSSWHITE, sixth grade teacher at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma, which was leveled by a tornado.  She threw herself over students inside a bathroom stall as the storm passed, likely helping to save their lives.

Teachers.  Among the best of us.

(via the New York Post)

There are empty spaces where there used to be bedrooms and living rooms and classrooms. We will need to rebuild those spaces.

PRESIDENT OBAMA, in remarks from the White House pledging federal aid to Oklahoma in the wake of the deadly tornado.

He also asked for relief donations to be made to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief fund.  More details here: https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002.  

The Red Cross also has a “Safe And Well” website where residents can register to help let family know their status following a disaster.  More information here: http://safeandwell.communityos.org/cms/index.php

  • Jon Stewart pointing out that the whole VA claims mess could be solved if the Obama administration put as much effort into getting the Veterans Administration computer systems to talk to one another as the Obama 2012 campaign went into getting people out to vote.
  • Ugh.  Ugh, because he’s right.

FYI

  • There are not “inconsistencies” in the reporting from the Oklahoma storms.  There are facts being updated by news organizations as they receive them from local officials.  Everything on this and other Tumblr news blogs links back to a source.  Journalism 101.

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