The President Understood What John Kerry Did Not -- Our Family Lost Two Victims.

On January 7, I was seeing my grandson, Landon, for the very first time. Landon was moving around in an ultrasound image on the TV screen in our home in Stamping Ground, Kentucky.

Our 18-year-old daughter, Ashley, was 21 weeks pregnant, and she had just gotten the ultrasound video from her doctor. Ashley was incredibly excited about her baby as she pointed out, to her brother and me, every part of that baby on the screen - - the little toes and fingers, his spine, everything.

We could clearly see Landon's little heart beating. We could see his little face. Just a few hours later, Ashley and Landon were both dead. They were found murdered - - shot to death - - in Ashley's own car in a local park.

Since then, life has been a nightmarish blur - - never-ending anguish, mixed with anger and bafflement. More than two months after the crime, a man was arrested. We can only pray that justice will be done.

But it cannot be full justice, because soon after the crime, I was informed that in the eyes of the law, we had lost a daughter, but not a grandson. Under Kentucky law, I learned, this crime had a single victim.

I could not accept this. Nobody can tell me that there were not two victims. I placed Landon in Ashley's arms, wrapped in a baby blanket that I had sewn for him, just before I kissed my daughter goodbye for the last time and closed the casket.

I found a journal that Ashley had been writing to her baby. Right at the beginning, when she was only two months pregnant, she wrote how she had rejected advice to get an abortion.