[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 7]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 9602-9603]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      REMEMBERING CAITLIN HAMMAREN

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                           HON. JOHN J. HALL

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, April 20, 2007

  Mr. HALL of New York. Madam Speaker, on Monday, April 16, 2007, the 
Virginia Polytechnic Institute was struck by one of the most heinous 
acts of violence our Nation has ever witnessed. This sense of loss has 
resonated throughout our country and around the world. It has affected 
the entire Virginia Tech community and led to an outpouring of sympathy 
and support from all Americans. It has touched families across the 
Nation, especially those in my home district in the Hudson Valley, 
where we lost an outstanding young woman, Caitlin Hammaren.
  Caitlin was a young person from Westtown, New York, who graduated 
from Minisink Valley High School in 2005. She was the section leader in 
the high school chorus, loved to ride horses, and was kind and generous 
to all who knew her. As a Resident Assistant in her dormitory at 
Virginia Tech, she looked over and

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protected her fellow students and guided them through their daily 
experiences as young people just learning how to become independent 
adults. Caitlin will be deeply missed by her family, friends, and the 
campus community that she was such an important and cherished part of. 
I know all of my colleagues join me on this day of mourning in sending 
our thoughts and prayers to Caitlin's family and friends.

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