[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 8 (Wednesday, February 6, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H145]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        REMEMBERING SUSAN CLYNE

  (Mr. ISRAEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ISRAEL. Mr. Speaker, today I am joined in the gallery by Mr. 
Charlie Clyne of Lindenhurst, who lost his wife in the World Trade 
Center on September 11.
  Mr. Clyne and I have just met with special master Ken Feinberg to 
work towards a victim's compensation fund that is fair and just, and I 
just wanted to share with my colleagues Mr. Clyne's comments and 
recollections and remembrances about his wife Susan.
  She loved her job at Marsh and loved her view from her 96th floor 
office. She loved computers; and since computer law was not very 
popular at the time, she chose to stay in insurance where she carved 
her niche, first as a programmer and then rose through the ranks.
  But her greatest love was her children, and she shared that love with 
her kids. She juggled work, family and studying. Her children were her 
treasures. She adored them, and they worshipped her. Her office was 
filled with pictures. She developed a family Web site with pictures, 
slide shows, and, most recently, streaming video.
  As Mr. Clyne wrote in a note to me, ``They were truly her angels. Sue 
got up every morning at 4:45 and was on the 6 a.m. train to the city. 
We never saw her that morning. We never even had a chance to say good-
bye. In an instant, some radical religious moron decided it was her 
time.''
  Mr. Speaker, I know that this entire House expresses our condolences 
and best wishes to Mr. Charlie Clyne and all of the families of victims 
of that horrible day.

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