The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was sitting in my office in Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C., when the second plane plowed into the World Trade Center in New York City. I called a friend and asked, “Are you okay?"

Twenty-four years later, we are married and two of our children are on college campuses. When I heard the news of Charlie Kirk’s assassination at Utah Valley University, I called both children with the same question I had asked their mom: “Are you okay?”

Charlie Kirk’s children have been robbed of calls like that from their dad.

I didn’t know Kirk, though I followed his work. Many of my friends knew and admired him. Kirk spoke his mind with wit and swagger, often on hotly debated topics. We don’t know the motivations of the killer, but it appears Kirk was killed for his

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