Carryn Owens: not a "political prop"

MARY KATHARINE: Make
I don't know Mrs. Owens, but I was bothered by the suggestion
that she was only a political prop,
or she was only exploited.
And it seemed to take away the agency from this obviously very
tough woman.
I know many families of the fallen.
She and her family know the price of freedom
more than most of us ever will.
I was also widowed in 2015.
He was not military, but I have two young children.
She was there of her own volition.
She made a decision.
And she very well may have been there because she knew that she
would stand up, and her husband, a hero,
would get a hero's standing ovation, that the entire nation
would know his name, that the president would be honoring him
and the entire Congress, and that years from now,
she can show that to her children, as it should be.
And so I don't want to take that away from her
when we discuss this.
Yes, it's a Washington event.
But let ourselves have that moment.
Let yourself have that moment, because it
was really human, whether or not there
were politicians involved.
It was beautiful.

Carryn Owens: not a "political prop"

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