[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 147 (Tuesday, November 8, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H9966]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  SAM BUNDY SCHOOL--THANK GOD FOR KIDS

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, when the howling winds and incessant rains of 
Hurricane Katrina came barreling ashore on the southeast Texas coast, 
the small coastal town of Sabine Pass was almost completely destroyed 
by destruction and devastation. School Superintendent Walt Fenn 
immediately worried about the 300 students who attended K-12 school, 
Sabine Pass School.
  Thousands of miles away, however, elementary school kids at Sam Bundy 
School in Farmville, North Carolina, heard about the devastation in 
Texas. They too experienced a similar destruction in Hurricane Floyd in 
1999. These kids wanted the students in Sabine Pass to know everything 
will be okay.
  The children at Sam Bundy School raised over $2,500 for the school 
kids in Texas, school kids they had never met in a place they had never 
seen. There was no red tape, no Federal bureaucracy, just a bunch of 
kids in a small town in North Carolina that wanted to help some other 
kids in Texas.
  The students at Sam Bundy School are wonderful examples of 
Americanism and volunteerism. Now they have a whole crew of new pen-
pals in southeast Texas that will forever be grateful. These Sam Bundy 
students remind me of the song ``Thank God for Kids,'' another example 
of children being our greatest natural resource. That's just the way it 
is.

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