[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 18783-18784]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



EXPRESSING THANKS TO THE PEOPLE IN THE FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF 
                                ALABAMA

  (Mr. ADERHOLT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ADERHOLT. Madam Speaker, we have all heard stories over the past 
three weeks where Americans have gone out of their way and beyond the 
call of duty to help the victims of their families of the September 11 
attacks of the United States. I have seen several examples in Alabama 
and in the congressional district I represent, the Fourth District of 
Alabama.
  One such example is in the northeastern part of the fourth 
congressional district in DeKalb County. A family there heard a 
firefighter tell of a need that was so simple, that many may not have 
even thought about it, the need for clean, dry socks. It should be 
noted that this area of the district is the ``sock capital'' of the 
world.
  After a few phone calls to numerous sock mills in the Fort Payne 
area, those in Alabama's hosiery industry were there to help, offering 
socks made in America, from American materials, finished in America, 
packaged in America and, most importantly, for American heroes in their 
time of need.
  The hosiery industry in Fort Payne and DeKalb County was presented 
with a need and answered the call within 24 hours. More than 5,000 
pairs of socks

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were delivered to both New York City and the Pentagon.
  I want to express my thanks for the actions of the people of the Fort 
Payne area and the thousands of other families in Alabama's Fourth 
District who work in these sock mills. I am proud to represent this 
community, Fort Payne, even though it may not have been in the 
headlines of the New York Times, they stood up in an important way to 
help their fellow Americans.

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