[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27029]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            FORT HOOD, TEXAS

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, the bugle sounds Taps. The flags of 
Texas and the U.S. are at half staff this crisp morning.
  In the hill country of central Texas, at the largest military base, a 
place called Fort Hood, soldiers and families mourn. They mourn for 13 
of their own who have been murdered. They weep for 30 others who fill 
hospitals because of bullet wounds.
  The soldiers were going about the business of making ready to deploy 
and defend this country overseas against tyranny and terrorism, only to 
face a terrorist here at home. A radicalized soldier named Nidal Hasan 
rejected his order to go abroad and took out his anger on those he 
knew.
  We come upon Veterans Day next week where we honor our veterans, but 
let us here today in Congress on this solemn occasion give thought, 
prayer, and thanks to the men and women of the military who have 
volunteered to defend the rest of us against those forces of evil. We 
mourn with their families. These of our military are a rare breed, a 
unique breed, the American breed.
  And that's just the way it is.

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