[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 145 (Wednesday, September 11, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H7604-H7605]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     COMMEMORATING THE 18TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS

  (Mr. MEUSER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MEUSER. Mr. Speaker, we all remember where we were on September 
11, 2001. I, myself, drove my daughter, Caroline, to school on my way 
to work. She was in the third grade. Driving over the Susquehanna River 
in Pennsylvania on my way to work, I recall thinking what a beautiful 
day it was.
  I watched with coworkers soon after that the horror of the planes 
hitting the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A few days later, I 
was asked to come to Ground Zero to help.
  I will never forget the hospitals were all prepared for injured in 
Manhattan, but there were no injured, or very few. I will never forget 
the families and the communities that showed resilience and hope. I 
will never forget the crowds of people cheering the first responders as 
they traveled toward Ground Zero.

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  I now have a flag hanging in my office with 2,977 names of those who 
perished that day. Two of those names were my friends.
  September 11, now known as Patriot Day, brought us together and 
unified our Nation in defiance of terrorism and evil. Let us continue 
to come together and never forget that we are all Americans and that 
we, here, represent the greatest country on Earth.

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