On a tragic Monday in September, the life of Kathleen 'Kathy' Gaarde, a 62-year-old White female from Woodbridge, Virginia, was cut short in a senseless act of violence. On September 16, 2013, Gaarde was at her job as a financial analyst at the Washington Navy Yard when a gunman began a rampage, killing twelve people before he was killed by police. Gaarde, who was just months away from a well-deserved retirement, was one of the victims.
Her husband of 38 years, Douglass Gaarde, described
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