It's a lazy Saturday, and the way UCLA hoops is playing isn't helping the drowsiness.

One thing that I really haven't read into until now was the Tucson shootings and its subsequent reaction, specifically, from Barack.

It's not nearly of the same magnitude as the massive tragedies in the Bush admin, but it's one that has unified if on a smaller scale, a great multitude. It was a chance for him who has endured many failures (see: environmental, labor, and health care legislation) to condone simple accusations between the two factions and instead, welcome openness and moral searching. We'll see if this holds true for the next year and a half.

Things I noticed at the Tucson Memorial Service:

Christina Taylor Green: Nine-year-old wanted to meet Gabrielle Giffords. She was a member of the school’s student council, and Obama urged those who congregated to see things “through the eyes of a child.”

Taylor Green was born on September 11, 2001. One of the 50 babies picture in a book called ‘Faces of Hope.’

On either side of the photo were "simple wishes for a child’s life."

Among those, "I hope you help those in need." Another: "I hope that you know all the words to the National Anthem and sing them with your hand over your heart." The final one: "I hope you jump in rain puddles."

Obama: “If there are rain puddles in heaven, Christina is jumping in them today. And here, on this earth, here on this earth, we place our hands over our hearts, and we commit ourselves to forging a country that is worthy of our gentle happy spirit.”

31:25: I want to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as Christina imagined. I want America to be as good as she imagined it. All of us, everyone, we should make that this country lives up to our children’s expectations.

29:10: They believe and I believe that we can be better. Those who died here, those who survived here, they help me believe. We may not be able to stop all the evil in the world. But I know how we treat each other: that’s entirely up to us. And I believe through all our imperfection, we are full of goodness and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.

The sudden turn of events pose a challenge and forces us to recall our actions and their selflessness.

It raises a question beyond prayers of concern: How do we remember the fallen?

How can we be true to their memory?

Barack claims that we are an American family, 300 million strong. In something so current like Tucson, it holds true.

Human nature and forgetfulness suggests otherwise.