[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 133 (Friday, September 9, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H6013]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        REMEMBERING AND HONORING

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, 10 years ago, I was headed to the 
courthouse as a judge in Houston, Texas. I was driving my jeep and 
listening to country western music when I heard on the radio that New 
York was under attack. Later that day, as most Americans were watching 
television, as I was later in the evening, I saw those attacks on New 
York and the Pentagon and how thousands of people, Americans, were 
running as hard as they could to get away from that terror in the sky.
  But there was another group of people, not very many, but they were 
there. And they were running as hard as they could to get to that 
terror from the skies. And who were they? They were our first 
responders--peace officers, Port Authority officers, firefighters, 
emergency medical technicians, and volunteers. And they rushed into 
those burning buildings and saved people.
  And while today it is just as important that we remember those 
thousands that died on 9/11, we should also remember those that got to 
live because America's first responders went into those buildings and 
saved them.
  And that's just the way it is.

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