[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 17]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 23333-23334]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        THE GHOST OF ABERCROMBIE

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                          HON. JOHN B. LARSON

                             of connecticut

                    in the house of representatives

                        Saturday, August 4, 2007

  Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Madam Speaker, the cold night brought me 
into the cancered bowels of this capital place. Barren halls and 
walkways and crawl space in front of me and inside cerebral tunnels.
  It is here, away from now. I come to face the ghost of Abercrombie.
  Who walked these paths and is remembered for not so hallow words.
  Who bragged sincerely of life and death long before the funeral 
chant.

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  As cold and dark and empty and hollow as these moments are, it is 
here in the mind's basement that we face this white ghost.
  Abercrombie who is still here.
  Have hope--nothing ends.

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