Charleston Says Farewell to another Church Victim
Monday brings another funeral for one of the nine people killed in the church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina.
Family and friends will say goodbye to 59-year-old Myra Thompson, who was gunned down during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17.
"I have struggled through all of these funerals because this happened on my watch and what I can tell you is that we will make this right," Gov. Nikki Haley said. "They will not have died in vain."
Thompson's funeral follows services for four other victims held this weekend at Emanuel AME Church, where the shootings happened.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was in attendance, compared the deaths to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the four girls bombed inside a Birmingham, Alabama church in the 1960s.
The farewell service comes several days after President Barack Obama delivered the eulogy for Emanuel's slain pastor, Clementa Pinckney.
The president surprised the crowd Friday when he ended his message singing "Amazing Grace."
"As a nation, out of this terrible tragedy, God has visited grace upon us," Obama said. "For he has allowed us to see where we've been blind -- He has given us the chance, where we've been lost, to find our best selves."
