"Erika Kirk that Charlie was too excited to sleep the night before his scheduled event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. 'He got up and I could hear him eating something in the kitchen. He'd been waiting all summer to begin touring.' The visits to college campuses, she said, were like an Olympic event for him. He trained for them. He had whiteboard sessions for hours. Mock debates. He was just so excited,' she told The Times."
"In light of death threats against her husband, Erika Kirk told Draper that she implored Charlie to wear a bulletproof vest during his speaking engagements, and a friend even suggested he speak behind bulletproof glass. But Charlie's answer was, Not yet. Erika Kirk had planned to be with her husband in Utah, but remained in Arizona to take care of her mother, who was hospitalized at the time. That's where she learned of Charlie's murder."
Erika Kirk described Charlie Kirk as too excited to sleep the night before his scheduled Utah event, rising late and eating in the kitchen after a summer of anticipation. She said campus visits were like an Olympic event for him, with hours of whiteboard sessions, mock debates and intense training. He fell asleep later in another bed and slipped out early the next morning; she texted "I love you" before his chartered plane took off. She urged him to wear a bulletproof vest amid death threats and learned of his murder while caring for her hospitalized mother. She now wears the St. Michael pendant he wore and is slated to speak at his memorial alongside national figures.
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