Thousands attend Charlie Kirk Funeral in Glendale, Arizona
Mourners, including Elon Musk, honored the life of prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk, 31, at a service ceremony in Glendale, Arizona.
Tens of thousands of people went silent in honor of prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and his widow gave emotional tributes for his murdered husband and received a standing ovation when he forgives the man accused of killing him.
“It’s what Christ did and I’ll forgive him because it’s what Charlie does,” Erica Kirk, 36, told Glendale, a mourner crowd on September 21. “The answer to hatred is not hatred.
Erica Kirk occasionally choking and tapping her eyes with a handkerchief, arrived at Utah Hospital on the day of her husband’s death, recalling “unthinkable” and “seeing her husband’s murdered body in person.” She was shaken up and felt “the level of heartache that I didn’t even know that I existed.”
The memorial, hosted by Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA organization, took place at State Farm Stadium in Glendale. He attended a service before dawn, listened to conservative leaders, and heard his loved ones, and reminded me of the 31-year-old who was assassinated while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
Supporters praised Charlie Kirk, a close ally of the Trump administration, for his religious beliefs, and vowed to continue his legacy.
“Even after I died, I could see the man I love.”
Erica Kirk detailed her husband’s final moments, describing his death as “very instantaneous” and explaining that she felt “no fear or suffering.”
“There was something else,” she added. “Even though I was dead, I could see the man I love.”
Erica Kirk said she detected a “slight smile” on her husband’s lips. “In this tragedy I revealed to me a great mercy from God,” she said, knowing that he was not suffering, wearing a white jacket and a diamond cross.
She said her husband wrote a love note to her every Saturday and called it “our little secret” to keep her married. He finished the note by saying, “How can I serve you better as a husband?” Erica Kirk said.
“I know my marriage to Charlie was the best thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that happened to him,” Erica Kirk said. “He wanted everyone to experience that joy.”
She said her husband is passionate about helping young men who feel lost and have no direction.
“My husband, really, he wanted to save a young man, just like the one who took his life,” Kirk said.
Erika Kirk has been appointed CEO of Turning Point USA
Erica Kirk also said during the additional service ceremony that her husband “dead of incomplete work, but not an unfinished business.” She called on men to follow her husband’s example, saying, “I accept Charlie’s challenge and accept true masculinity.”
“Be a leader worth following,” she said. “Your wife is not your servant. Your wife is not your employee. Your wife is not your slave. She is your helper. You are not your rival. You are one flesh and you work together for the glory of God.”
A few days after Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, Erica Kirk promised in her speech that she would continue her husband’s job. She said in her first public release since her husband was killed, “This widow’s cry echoes all over the world like a scream of battle.”
“The evil ones for the assassination of my husband don’t know what they did,” she said at her address.
Contributed by: Kathryn Palmer, USA Today
