[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 103 (Tuesday, July 28, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H6493]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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          PROFOUND SYMPATHIES FROM NEW JERSEY'S 11TH DISTRICT

  (Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Speaker, in this hallowed Chamber we are often 
separated by differences in policy and politics, but today we stand 
together as a family, bound in honor of two men who will always be 
remembered in this Chamber and in this Nation as heroes.
  While the horror of Friday's events will be blurred sadly by still 
other tragedies and the passage of time, the bravery and devotion to 
duty of Capitol Hill Police Officers John Gibson and Jacob Chestnut 
will become as lasting as the very democracy contained within these 
walls. We will not forget them.
  This Capitol, the People's House, is honored by the service of each 
of our Capitol Police Officers, and to all of them today I offer praise 
and gratitude. By these two fallen heroes the People's House is 
venerated more so than the presence of any one of us here who have 
meant liberty, for Officers Gibson and Chestnut surrendered theirs in 
protection of ours.
  To the Gibson and Chestnut families, on behalf of New Jersey's 11th 
Congressional District, my deepest, most profound sympathies go to 
them. They should know we share their grief and we also share their 
tremendous pride of these two men who have given their lives in the 
preservation of the sanctity of our Nation's Capitol.

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