[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16567]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF SEPTEMBER 11

  (Mr. McNULTY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McNULTY. Mr. Speaker, whenever I think of the enormity of what 
happened on September 11, 2001, words fail; and so I try to recall the 
words of our commander in chief on that fateful day. He basically made 
three suggestions. He said we should pray for all of the innocent 
victims and their families, and I try to remember to do that every day. 
He then said we should be grateful. And I will be perfectly honest, 
gratitude was not what was in my heart at that moment. But he went on 
to explain that we should be grateful to all the police officers, 
firefighters, and emergency personnel who, when others were running 
away from the buildings in terror, running for their lives, continued 
to run toward the buildings, into the buildings, up the stairs, many to 
their deaths. That was their job. And they did it well that day because 
they saved thousands of lives.
  Finally, he suggested that we unite as a Nation in our resolve to 
track down the terrorist cowards who committed those acts, bring them 
to justice, and take away their capabilities to ever do anything like 
that again either in the United States or anywhere else in the world.
  On this solemn anniversary may we continue to remember those three 
suggestions by our commander in chief.

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