[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 144 (Thursday, September 11, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H8024]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 11

  (Mr. PAYNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAYNE. Madam Speaker, 7 years ago our Nation was struck. And as 
we reflect on that infamous day, as a representative of North Jersey, 
many of the victims came from our State. We responded with our 
firefighters and first responders who immediately went over to New York 
through the tunnel, by boat, to assist our brothers and sisters there.
  I want to say a special word about one of my constituents, Wanda 
Green, who was a flight attendant on Flight 93 that left my district, 
my town of Newark, New Jersey and, as you know, was on its way to the 
Capitol and was brought down by heroic persons on board that plane.
  Wanda Green was a flight attendant who switched with another 
attendant who asked her to take her flight because she had to do 
something, and Wanda said, all right.
  I visited her two college-age children at that time, and we talked 
about how courageous she was and that they had to live on and move on 
in her spirit.
  And so we are here to express and reflect on that day. To all the 
families who were impacted, you have our deep condolences.

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