[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 156 (Wednesday, December 7, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H11116]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          GALVANIZING A NATION

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, it was a Sunday morning on December 7, 1941, 
and the planes came down and Pearl Harbor entered the history of infamy 
in the United States of America. Days later, President Franklin Delano 
Roosevelt would use that term from this very podium in describing the 
holocaust of that day. But from the tragedy of Pearl Harbor came a 
galvanized Nation that rose as one man to confront imperial Japan and 
Nazi and Fascist Europe.
  I was here on another morning such as that, another clear day when 
the planes came down and the holocaust of September 11, as December 7, 
galvanized a Nation. Let us learn from the Greatest Generation that saw 
the horror of our enemies at Pearl Harbor. Let us allow September 11 to 
galvanize our resolve in the war on terror. Complete the mission as our 
President has challenged our Nation to do.

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