[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 124 (Friday, September 21, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S9609]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          THE CALIFORNIANS WHO PERISHED ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

  Mrs. BOXER. Madam President, as the American people struggle to come 
to terms with the horrific events of Tuesday, September 11, we are 
reminded again and again of the countless individual tragedies still 
playing out in every corner of our country: another firefighter is laid 
to rest, a classroom copes with the loss of a teacher, a baby is born 
who will never know her father, a family accepts that a loved one will 
never be found.
  We are all haunted by such stories, each one profound in its deep 
sadness and, considered together, staggering in their scope.
  None of us is untouched by last Tuesday's terror, and it is now 
painfully clear that many residents of California were part of each 
tragic moment of that tragic day. Some were trapped in the World Trade 
Center towers. Some were at work in the Pentagon. And the fates of some 
were sealed as they boarded planes bound for San Francisco or Los 
Angeles.
  I offer today this tribute to the dozens of Californians who perished 
on that awful morning. I want to assure the victims' families that 
their fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, aunts, uncles, brothers 
and sisters will not be forgotten. As a nation, we hold them close.
  Words alone cannot convey the depth of our dismay, but the names of 
those Californians who lost their lives provide a stark and simple 
symbol of our anger and our pain. The list that follows may well grow. 
I will honor each one in every way that I can.
  David Angell of Pasadena; Lynn Angell of Pasadena; Seima Aoyama of 
Los Angeles; Barbara Aresteguis of Los Angeles; Melissa Barnes of 
Redlands; Alan Beaven of Emeryville; Berry Berenson of Los Angeles; 
Carolyn Beug of Los Angeles; Yeneneh Betru of Burbank; Mark Bingham of 
San Francisco; Deora Bodley of Santa Clara; Touri Bolourchi of Beverly 
Hills; Daniel Brandhourst of Hollywood Hills; David Brandhourst of 
Hollywood Hills; Thomas Burnett of San Ramon; Suzanne Calley of San 
Martin; Jefferey Collman of Novato; Dorothy Dearaujo of Long Beach; 
Darlene Flagg of Corona; Dee Flagg of Corona; Wilson Flagg of Corona; 
Lisa Frost of Rancho Santa Margarita; Ronald Gamboa of Los Angeles; 
Andrew Garcia of Portola Valley; Edmund Glazer of Chatsworth; Lauren 
Grandcolas of San Rafael; Andrew Curry Green of Los Angeles; Richard 
Guadagno of Humboldt County; Stanley Hall of Rancho Palos Verdes; 
Gerald Hardacre of Carlsbad; John Hofer of Bellflower; Stephen Hyland 
of Claremont; Barbara Keating of Palm Springs; Chandler Keller of El 
Segundo; Jude Larson of Los Angeles; Natalie Larson of Los Angeles; 
Daniel John Lee of Van Nuys; Maclovio Lopez of Norwalk; Dora Menchaca 
of Santa Monica; Nicole Miller of San Jose; Laurie A. Neira of Los 
Angeles; Ruben Orneda of Los Angeles; Jerrold Paskins of Anaheim Hills; 
Thomas Pecorelli of Los Angeles; Robert Penniger of Poway; Mari-Rae 
Sopper of Santa Barbara; Alicia Titus of San Francisco; Otis Tolbert of 
Lemoore; Pendyala Vamsikrishna of Los Angeles; Timothy Ward of San 
Diego; and John Wenckus of Torrance.
  In the name of these Californians, and in the name of all the other 
innocent victims, it is time for the terrorism to stop.

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