[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16928]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                                 HEROES

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, Tuesday morning, a passenger named Jeremy 
Glick called his wife from United Airlines Flight 93 as it flew over 
Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Jeremy knew he was going to die, and 
told his wife he wanted her to have a good life and asked her to please 
look after their 3- month-old baby girl. Then Jeremy and another 
passenger named Thomas Burnett charged the cockpit to overcome the 
hijackers.
  The plane crashed in a field, killing all of its passengers but no 
one else. It has been reported that that plane was headed for Andrews 
Air Force Base on a mission to take out Air Force One.
  Ali Taqi, a 24-year-old firefighter from Michigan, hopped in his car 
Tuesday and drove all the way to New York City to see if he could help 
out with rescue efforts.
  Tuesday morning, hundreds of firefighters, police officers, EMS 
workers charged into the first of the twin towers only to lose their 
lives when the second one was hit, and both buildings collapsed.
  Mr. Speaker, every one of these people is an American hero.
  Passengers on Flight 93 literally gave their lives to save others.
  Nathan Hale rued the fact that he had ``but one life to give for his 
country.'' None of us has more than one life to give, but the way 
Tuesday's heroes gave theirs and the way today's are risking theirs to 
search for survivors will be remembered forever.

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