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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/funeral-for-girl-killed-in-shooting.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A funeral has been held for nine-year-old Arizona shooting victim Christina Taylor Green (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-funeral-for-girl-killed-in-shooting.jpg" alt="A funeral has been held for nine-year-old Arizona shooting victim Christina Taylor Green (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>The youngest victim of the mass shooting in Arizona has been remembered at her funeral for her love of baseball, animals and swimming with her brother.</p>
<p>Christina Taylor Green&#8217;s funeral is the first for the six victims killed when a gunman opened fire on a crowd at an event for Representative Gabrielle Giffords, injuring the congresswoman, wounding 13 others and shocking the country. </p>
<p>The nine-year-old girl was born on September 11, 2001, and featured in a book called Faces Of Hope that chronicled one baby from each state born on the day terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people.</p>
<p>As the funeral began, Christina&#8217;s family held hands and paused in a moment of silence under the large American flag recovered from Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks, then escorted the small brown casket into the church as little girls about her age cried. Several hundred other mourners, many in white T-shirts, lined a road near the church to show support.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, doctors said Ms Giffords continued making strong progress toward recovery. The 40-year-old congresswoman is moving both legs and both arms, has opened both eyes and is responding to friends and family, doctors said.</p>
<p>They have helped her sit up and dangle her legs from the bed, and she is able to lift her legs on command.</p>
<p>With her closest friends from Congress holding her hand on Wednesday evening, Ms Giffords opened her left eye and tried to focus on loved ones for the first time.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was raw courage. It was raw strength. It was so beautiful and so moving,&#8221; Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York said of the Arizona legislator. &#8220;She wanted us to know that she was with us 100% and understood everything we were saying.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ms Giffords&#8217; neurosurgeon, Dr Michael Lemole, called it &#8220;a major milestone&#8221;, and said the congresswoman was clearly responding to the gathering of friends and family.</p>
<p>The updated medical reports came a day after President Barack Obama travelled to Tucson and appealed for unity at a memorial service for those attacked in the Arizona shooting rampage, and he implored a divided America to honour them by becoming a better country.</p>
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