Sunday marked the memorial service for Charlie Kirk, a legendary conservative activist who is largely responsible for President Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election, as well as JD Vance's Vice Presidency, and the newly formed coalition between RFK Jr. and MAGA. State Farm Stadium in Phoenix was filled with the administration’s top officials, the President, and the Vice President, all paying tribute with solemn speeches. Yet none carried the weight, or the heartbreak, of the words spoken by Charlie’s widow.
She began her speech with Charlie's favorite Bible verse, Isaiah 6:8: "Here I am, Lord. Send me," and told the crowd a story of when her husband said the phrase at the end of a Turning Point USA conference. She told him, "Charlie, baby, please talk to me next time before you say that statement," she said. "Because when you say something like that, there is so much power in that verse … God will take you up on that, and He did."
In the most powerful moment of the day, Charlie's widow forgave her husband's killer.
"Our Savior said, 'Father, forgive them, for they not know what they do.' That young man … I forgive him," Erika Kirk said as her voice broke. "I forgive him because it was what Christ did, and it's what Charlie would do." The stadium erupted in applause, as tens of thousands of people shared Eirka's tears.
Wow.
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Erika Kirk just forgave her husband's murderer.
"That young man.
On the cross our Savior said, 'Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.'
That man, that young man, I forgive him."
God Bless Erika Kirk!!! 🙏❤️ pic.twitter.com/SRwf6nCpzg
She also told the crowd about the moment she went to see her husband's lifeless body in the aftermath of his assassination.
"I look(ed) directly at my husband's murdered body," she said. "I saw the wound that ended his life. I felt everything you would expect to feel. I felt shock. I felt horror and a level of heartache that I didn't even know existed."
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"But there was something else too. Even in death, I could see the man that I love. I saw the one single gray hair on the side of his head, which I never told him about," she laughed. "Now he knows. Sorry, baby, telling you now."
"I also saw on his lips the faintest smile … it told me Charlie didn't suffer. Even the doctor told me it was something so instant that even if Charlie had been shot in the operating room … nothing could have been done. There was no pain."
Erika also revealed how their marriage remained strong amid all of Charlie's traveling.
"Someone once asked me how Charlie and I thought we kept our marriage so strong when he was busy traveling," she said. "Our little secret: It was love notes. Every Saturday, Charlie wrote one for me, and he never missed a Saturday."
"And in every single one of them, he'd tell me what his highlight was for the week, how grateful he was for me and our babies," she added. "And always at the end, he would always end it with asking the most beautiful question, 'Please let me know how I can better serve you as a husband.'"
🙏 Mrs. Kirk says the secret to their marriage was love notes.
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"Every Saturday, Charlie wrote one for me & he never missed a Saturday. He’d tell me how grateful he was for me & our babies. He’d always ended by asking, please let me know how I can better serve you as a husband." pic.twitter.com/GDFeEsd6G3
She told the audience that Charlie enjoyed journaling, "And one of the things he wrote in his journal was this, ‘Every time you make a decision, it puts a mark on your soul,'" she said. "To those of you out there who just made that decision, and took the first step toward a spiritual life, I say thank you and welcome."
Charlie Kirk did "100% of what he could every day," and left Earth "without regrets," she told the audience. "There was nothing that was too hard or too painful or nothing that he just felt like he didn't want to do," she continued.
"Everything that Turning Point USA built through Charlie's vision and hard work, we will make ten times greater through the power of his memory," Erika Kirk concluded. "No assassin will ever stop us from standing up to defend those rights."
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