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For one Uvalde couple, a very welcome presidential landing right across the street
LA Times via Yahoo NewsAs President Biden's motorcade zoomed past Mario and Agnes Quintanilla's longtime Uvalde home Sunday, she snapped pictures from their front lawn while he waved a big homemade sign reading, "President Biden thank you for your support!"
Lining the street before them were 21 American flags they'd planted in the ground, one for each of the 19 students and two teachers who were killed by a gunman at their 9-year-old granddaughter's elementary school last week, some of them their granddaughter's friends.
The couple have lived directly across the street from Garner Field — Uvalde's local airfield and the arrival and departure point for Biden's Marine One helicopter — for 26 years, they said. Never have they been so appreciative of someone landing there.
"I'm really glad he came," Mario Quintanilla said. "Really, really glad."
"This is history for us," Agnes Quintanilla said.
Lining the street before them were 21 American flags they'd planted in the ground, one for each of the 19 students and two teachers who were killed by a gunman at their 9-year-old granddaughter's elementary school last week, some of them their granddaughter's friends.
The couple have lived directly across the street from Garner Field — Uvalde's local airfield and the arrival and departure point for Biden's Marine One helicopter — for 26 years, they said. Never have they been so appreciative of someone landing there.
"I'm really glad he came," Mario Quintanilla said. "Really, really glad."
"This is history for us," Agnes Quintanilla said.
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