[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21851]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      RENEWING COMMITMENT TO FIGHT THE SCOURGE OF GLOBAL TERRORISM

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Renzi) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. RENZI. Mr. Speaker, I rise here today on the anniversary of this 
tragic occasion to renew my commitment to fight the scourge of global 
terrorism. I rise to send a message to those who wish to bring harm to 
our innocent: your tactics will not succeed, your message will not be 
heard, and your existence will forever be reviled by peace-loving 
people of this Earth.
  The wound to my Nation is now a scar, a disfigurement to serve as a 
reminder that in this world, if you stand for liberty, you will be 
targeted; if you seek freedom and individual rights, you will be 
struck.
  I am humbled by the thought that on this weekend, as on each weekend 
since the attacks 2 years ago, the American children who lost a mom or 
a dad on September 11 will go to little league ballfields around our 
Nation, and it is there that these young ones will play their hearts 
out for a dad who is not there to call to his own, to a mom who is not 
there to call to her little one. To the single moms and dads out there 
struggling to raise their children who know personal sacrifice and 
suffering, I am overwhelmed by their courage.
  Vigilance is the eternal price of freedom, and I beg my fellow 
patriots to rise up and remain vigilant, to continue to give and assist 
one another in a spirit of brotherhood, and to know that we as a Nation 
will never forget and never surrender.

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