[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 21404]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL TO FLIGHT 93

  Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, the Senate this week, and the whole 
world--or at least the United States of America, and I wish the whole 
world--were remembering back to what happened on 9/11/2001 in the 
United States. Yesterday, most appropriately in this Capitol, just 
outside of the Rotunda, the Senate and the House jointly dedicated an 
outstanding memorial to those passengers on United Flight 93, where 33 
passengers risked and lost their lives but turned what was the worst 
day in American history--in terms of the defeat--into the first victory 
of the war on terror.
  On that plane were many Americans who at the last minute had changed 
their flights. They weren't originally scheduled to take that plane but 
changed it for various reasons. Maybe it was fate. Don't know what it 
was. But one of the individuals on that flight was Georgine Corrigan. 
Georgine Corrigan lived in Honolulu. Georgine Corrigan was really a 
world renowned antiques dealer. Georgine Corrigan was the sister of 
Robert Marisay. Robert Marisay lives in Woodstock, GA. Yesterday, for 
the first time in my life, I had the occasion to meet him as he 
traveled to Washington to see the unveiling of that remarkable marker 
now hanging in the Capitol.
  In the few moments I had to share with him, he shared with me his 
love for his sister but also his profound pride in what those people on 
that plane had done that day. Many of us who are here today in the 
Capitol may not, in fact, have been here in this Capitol today had they 
not been able to take that plane down and take it away from the 
terrorists who had hijacked it.
  So as we remember the tragedy of 
9/11, as we recommit ourselves as Americans to never, ever having an 
incident like that happen again, it is important that we remember each 
and every individual who lost their life in the tragedies of 9/11, 
whether it was in New York City, at the Pentagon, or in Shanksville, 
PA. It was a tragic day in our country, a day that opened with great 
hope, with blue skies on a warm autumn day with a crisp autumn breeze, 
and ended as the most tragic day in American history.
  I am proud of the Senate and the House for the honor they bestowed 
upon Fight 93 yesterday, and I encourage all in this body to never, 
ever forget the tragedy of that day and to renew our commitment to see 
to it that it never happens again.

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