[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 29 (Thursday, March 14, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S1930]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                REMEMBERING THE VICTIMS OF SEPTEMBER 11

  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, today, I speak with great pain in my heart 
as our country remembers the victims of September 11. Monday was the 6-
month anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center and the 
Pentagon. Once again, I want to offer my condolences for the people who 
lost family members, friends, and loved ones.
  The amazing generosity and outpouring of love expressed by so many 
people in our country over these past six months has been heartwarming, 
and I have never seen such unity.
  Our country has been through a very difficult time. Each of us will 
remember where we were when we heard the news that commercial planes 
were turned into weapons against the World Trade Center and the 
Pentagon. Each of us will remember how we felt when we realized the 
incredible devastation of terrorism in our midst.
  On that day I was in the Capitol in a meeting with Senate Majority 
Leader Tom Daschle and several other Senators when the planes struck 
the World Trade Center. As we evacuated the Capitol building, our brace 
Californians on Flight 93 were bringing down the plane, hijacked by the 
terrorists and most likely headed for us. I truly believe that those 
Californians on Flight 93 that day have made it possible for me to be 
here today.
  Even as time has gone on, all I can think of is the people on those 
planes, every one of whom had a family. It is the families today that 
are coping with the results of September 11, and it is the families 
that will continue to keep the memory of the victims alive in all of 
our hearts. We have decided to fight and stand up for them and their 
memories.
  I want to read the names of the victims--in the planes, in the 
Towers, and in the Pentagon--from the State of California: David Angell 
and Lynn Angell, Seima Aoyama, Barbara Aresteguis, Melissa Barnes, Alan 
Beaven, Berry Berenson, Yeneneh Betru, Carolyn Beug and Mary Alice 
Wahlstrom, Mark Bingham, Deora Bodley, Touri Bolourchi, Richard 
Guadagno, Daniel Brandhourst and David Brandhourst, Charles ``Chic'' 
Burlingame III, Thomas Burnett, Suzanne Calley, Jefferey Collman, Jason 
Dahl, Dorothy Dearaujo, Darlene Flagg, Dee Flagg, Wilson Flagg, Lisa 
Frost, Ronald Gamboa, Andrew Garcia, Edmund Glazer, Jeremy Glick, 
Lauren Grandcolas, Andrew Curry Green, Stanley Hall, Gerald Hardacre, 
John Hofer, Stephen Hyland, Barbara Keating, Chandler Keller, Jude 
Larson, Natalie Larson, Daniel John Lee, Maclovio ``Joe'' Lopez, Dora 
Menchaca, Hilda Marcin, Nicole Miller, Mildred Naiman, Laurie A. Neira, 
Christopher Newton, Jacqueline Norton and Robert Norton, Ruben Orneda, 
Jerrold Paskins, Thomas Pecorelli, Robert Penniger, Mari-Rae Sopper, 
Hilda Taylor, Douglas Stone, Alicia Titus, Otis Tolbert, James Trentini 
and Mary Trentini, Pendyala Vamsikrishna, Timothy Ward, John Wenckus, 
John Yamnicky, Sr.
  Every generation has its time of testing. For my parents it was World 
War II, and for their parents it was World War I. Now, this our time, 
and this our challenge.

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