[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 134 (Friday, July 30, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H4300-H4301]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                   9/11 NATIONAL MEMORIAL TRAIL ROUTE

  (Ms. SCANLON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. SCANLON. Madam Speaker, my community in southeastern Pennsylvania 
was deeply impacted by the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001.
  Members of our community were among the flight crews and passengers

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on the hijacked planes, others worked at the World Trade Center or 
Pentagon that day and were killed or had to flee for their lives. 
Airplanes headed to Philadelphia were diverted to Canada, and the high-
rise offices were evacuated with bomb threats. Located between New 
York, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, our area keenly felt like 
the geographic center of the three airplane attacks.
  I am proud to cosponsor H.R. 2278, which authorizes the National Park 
Service to designate the September 11 National Memorial Trail route 
linking the Memorial and Museum in New York to the Pentagon Memorial in 
Arlington, Virginia, and the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset 
County. The 9/11 Memorial Trail will allow us all not to just engage 
with the tragedy of that terrorist attack, but also to heal from it.
  In Pennsylvania's Fifth District, the Memorial Trail will link parts 
of the Schuylkill River Trail, Kingsessing, the John Heinz National 
Wildlife Refuge, and move on through Delaware County.
  This bill passed the House with great bipartisan support, and I urge 
the Senate to take it up before the 20th anniversary of September 11.

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