[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 117 (Tuesday, September 11, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H5499]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          TODAY WE START ANEW

  (Mr. GRUCCI asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. GRUCCI. Mr. Speaker, I rise, as so many of my colleagues do here 
today, with a heart full of pain and sorrow, anger and frustration.
  Today is a day that we start anew. We will find those who are 
responsible for this heinous act against our community, against our 
families, against our friends and our neighbors; and we will bring 
those to justice who are responsible for this. We will move through 
anyone who stands in our way to accomplish that goal.
  But now is a time to also reach out to the families who are sitting 
by their telephones waiting to hear the call that tells them if their 
loved one is still alive, and there are those who are receiving the 
call today that their loved one is not. There will be many who have 
fallen in this tragedy, a tragedy so great that it is hard to 
understand it all as we watched as those towers came tumbling down, as 
we watched as the concrete and the steel of buildings collapsed and 
those inside of them perished.
  This is a great Nation. It is a Nation of true resolve. We will rise 
to the occasion of fixing the problems that caused this to happen. God 
bless those who are fallen, God bless their families, and God bless 
America.

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