[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 12]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 16000-16001]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 COMMENDING MRS. DePOALA'S FIFTH GRADE CLASS ON THE CREATION OF THEIR 
                              PEACE QUILT

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                        HON. MAURICE D. HINCHEY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 24, 2003

  Mr. HINCHEY. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise today 
to commend the children of Mrs. Sally DePoala's Fifth Grade class at 
Cahill Elementary School in Saugerties, New York for their contribution 
to the national dialogue in support of peace and hope. Last Friday I 
had the good fortune to spend some time with these young people and 
receive from them a Peace Quilt that they had spent a good part of the 
year creating. After reading an African folk tale earlier in the year, 
the students were inspired to create an artistic quilt that expressed 
their deeply held commitment to peace here in the United States of 
America

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and throughout the world. All of the students in the class contributed 
to the beautiful quilt and asked to present it to me so I may assist 
them in eventually having it displayed at a memorial for the World 
Trade Center in New York City.
   The tragic events of September 11, 2001 have had a profound effect 
on the Nation and the world. Together, we have sought out ways to deal 
with the fear, anger and grief that struck us all on that fateful day. 
Indeed, we as a nation have come together to find strength in the 
masses and to recommit ourselves to our families, our communities and 
our country.
   Mr. Speaker, I am very proud that the fifth grade students in Mrs. 
DePoala's class at Cahill Elementary decided to express themselves in 
this very thoughtful and traditional way. In a simple way, they have 
profoundly communicated the dream of our future generations to embrace 
peace and hope and to seek out strength from within our communities. 
I'm grateful to have been chosen as the messenger of the spirit of 
these young people and I will enthusiastically seek to have their 
wonderful Peace Quilt displayed prominently at the site where the world 
will remember the tragic events of September 11, 2001. In the meantime, 
I will proudly display this quilt in my Kingston district office so 
that our local community can appreciate this profound statement by our 
future generation.

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