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How appropriate that retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor sat next to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’s intern-turned-hero, Daniel Hernandez, at the memorial service for those injured and killed in the Tucson shooting. The legendary first woman justice, appointed by President Reagan in 1981, epitomizes the public service and civic engagement that Hernandez embodies for a new generation. Indeed, it is civic education, more than sanitized public discourse, that will save the Union from another Reagan legacy: a belief that “government is not the answer to our problem; government is the problem,” as he famously declared in his first inaugural. 

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