[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 13295-13296]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




H. RES. 391, RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF SEPTEMBER 
                                11, 2001

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                         HON. JAMES P. McGOVERN

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 9, 2011

  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this 
resolution.
  This Sunday our nation will commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the 
terrorist attacks that took place on September 11, 2001. It was a day 
that changed the way we live and view the world.
  It was a difficult time for all of us, but most difficult for the 
families, friends, relatives and communities who lost loved ones on 
that day.
  In the Boston Public Garden is a memorial to those in Massachusetts 
and New England who were lost on that day. At the entrance to the 
memorial is a simple plaque that reads: ``September 11, 2001: The 
people of Massachusetts will always remember our families, our 
husbands, wives, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, 
grandparents, grandchildren, companions, friends and neighbors.''
  Among the 207 names enshrined in the Public Garden 9/11 Memorial are 
six from my district in Massachusetts: Lynn Goodchild from Attleboro; 
Christopher Zarba, Jr., from Hopkinton; Linda George and Robin Kaplan 
from Westborough; Dianne Snyder from Westport; and Tara Creamer from 
Worcester.
  Today my thoughts and sympathies remain with their families, friends 
and loved ones. Many had children, some who are scarcely more than a 
decade old, others who are now teenagers or entering college. Each had 
vibrant lives and futures. We carry their memory in our hearts and our 
thoughts.
  I would like to insert the names of all the Massachusetts residents 
who perished on 
9/11.
  I think about the future we are called upon to create and build in 
the next decade, before we reach the 20th Anniversary of 9/11. In the 
days following the attacks, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair 
called upon the world to use the sense of unity and human sympathy 
engendered by the attacks to create a ``community for good.'' While 
referencing the need to help the African nations reach their full 
potential, he focused on creating a common purpose to help the world's 
most vulnerable--the hungry, the poor, women and children; those 
without education, food, water or dignified work.
  I often reflect on how well we as Americans and the international 
community have responded to that challenge. I look at the famine in the 
Horn of Africa, and I can see where we have reached out to Ethiopians 
and Kenyans and helped them become stronger and more resilient to the 
shocks brought on by natural disasters and long-term droughts. These 
investments have kept millions from falling into famine, but there's 
still more to do.
  Right next door, in Somalia, a nation torn by decades of war and 
instability, tens of millions are facing famine, hardest hit are the 
children. We need to do more.
  I look next door in my own cities and towns, and I find families 
struggling to put food on the table, as we look at a period of extended 
unemployment and attacks against state and federal safety-net programs. 
We need to do more--and we need to do better.
  On the first Sunday following the 9/11 attacks, I was at an 
ecumenical service in Worcester, Massachusetts. I said then that ``as 
our faith teaches us: Love is stronger than hate.''
  I still believe that.
  I still believe that peace-making--an end to poverty and oppression--
is a vital part of any global effort to end terrorism once and for all.
  I still believe that respecting the basic rights and dignity of all 
people is the best expression of who we are as America.
  And I still believe that this is the future we must recommit 
ourselves to creating and becoming a reality.

                                          MASSACHUSETTS VICTIMS OF 9/11
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        RESIDENTS Victim Name                City/Town              State             Location on 9/11/01
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Jeffrey W. Coombs...................  Abington...............  MA              AA Flight 11
Philip M. Rosenzweig................  Acton..................  MA              AA Flight 11
Madeline Sweeney....................  Acton..................  MA              AA Flight 11
Robert Jay Hayes....................  Amesbury...............  MA              AA Flight 11
Mildred Naiman......................  Andover................  MA              AA Flight 11
Betty Ann Ong.......................  Andover................  MA              AA Flight 11
Joseph Mathai.......................  Arlington..............  MA              World Trade Center
Lynn Catherine Goodchild............  Attleboro..............  MA              UA Flight 175
Brian D. Sweeney....................  Barnstable.............  MA              UA Flight 175
Charles E. Jones....................  Bedford................  MA              AA Flight 11
Carlos Alberto Montoya..............  Bellmont...............  MA              AA Flight 11
Paul Friedman.......................  Belmont................  MA              AA Flight 11
Edward (Ted) R. Hennessy Jr.........  Belmont................  MA              AA Flight 11
Jessica Leigh Sachs.................  Billerica..............  MA              AA Flight 11
Graham Andrew Berkeley..............  Boston.................  MA              UA Flight 175
Eric Samadikan Hartono..............  Boston.................  MA              UA Flight 175
Todd Russell Hill...................  Boston.................  MA              World Trade Center
Christopher D. Mello................  Boston.................  MA              AA Flight 11
Rahma Salie.........................  Boston.................  MA              AA Flight 11
Heather Lee Smith...................  Boston.................  MA              AA Flight 11
Michael Theodoridis.................  Boston.................  MA              AA Flight 11
Christine Barbuto...................  Brookline..............  MA              AA Flight 11
Kelly Ann Booms.....................  Brookline..............  MA              AA Flight 11
Karleton D.B. Fyfe..................  Brookline..............  MA              AA Flight 11
Daniel C. Lewin.....................  Brookline..............  MA              AA Flight 11
Maile Rachel Hale...................  Cambridge..............  MA              World Trade Center
John Charles Jenkins................  Cambridge..............  MA              AA Flight 11
Myra Joy Aronson....................  Charlestown............  MA              AA Flight 11
Christopher M. Morrison.............  Charlestown............  MA              World Trade Center
Dave Bernard........................  Chelmsford.............  MA              World Trade Center
Alexander Milan Filipov.............  Concord................  MA              AA Flight 11
Karen A. Martin.....................  Danvers................  MA              AA Flight 11
Deborah Medwig......................  Dedham.................  MA              World Trade Center
Sonia Morales Puopolo...............  Dover..................  MA              AA Flight 11
John Ogonowski......................  Dracut.................  MA              AA Flight 11
Antonio Jesus Montoya Valdes........  East Boston............  MA              AA Flight 11
James Anthony Trentini..............  Everett................  MA              AA Flight 11
Mary Barbara Trentini...............  Everett................  MA              AA Flight 11
Michael Gregory McGinty.............  Foxboro................  MA              World Trade Center
Judy Larocque.......................  Framingham.............  MA              AA Flight 11
Laura Lee Morabito..................  Framingham.............  MA              AA Flight 11
Christine Lee Hanson................  Groton.................  MA              UA Flight 175
Peter Hanson........................  Groton.................  MA              UA Flight 175
Sue Kim Hanson......................  Groton.................  MA              UA Flight 175
Jane M. Orth........................  Haverhill..............  MA              AA Flight 11
Christopher Rudolph Zarba Jr........  Hopkinton..............  MA              AA Flight 11
Jesus Sanchez.......................  Hudson.................  MA              UA Flight 175
Jean Destrehan Roger................  Longmeadow.............  MA              AA Flight 11
Brian Kinney........................  Lowell.................  MA              UA Flight 175
Garnet Edward (Ace) Bailey..........  Lynnfield..............  MA              UA Flight 175
Raymond J. Rocha....................  Malden.................  MA              World Trade Center
Ralph Francis Kershaw...............  Manchester-by-the-Sea..  MA              UA Flight 175
Frederick Rimmele...................  Marblehead.............  MA              UA Flight 175
William M. Weems....................  Marblehead.............  MA              UA Flight 175
Barbara Jean (Bobbi) Arestegui......  Marstons Mills.........  MA              AA Flight 11
Douglas A. Gowell...................  Methuen................  MA              UA Flight 175
Kenneth E. Waldie...................  Methuen................  MA              AA Flight 11
Herbert W. Homer....................  Milford................  MA              UA Flight 175

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Lisa Reinhart Fenn Gordenstein......  Needham................  MA              AA Flight 11
David E. Retik......................  Needham................  MA              AA Flight 11
Paige Farley-Hackel.................  Newton.................  MA              AA Flight 11
John Nicholas Humber Jr.............  Newton.................  MA              AA Flight 11
Richard Barry Ross..................  Newton.................  MA              AA Flight 11
Amy E. Toyen........................  Newton.................  MA              World Trade Center
John (Jay) Corcoran III.............  Norwell................  MA              UA Flight 175
Donald Americo DiTullio.............  Peabody................  MA              AA Flight 11
Natalie Janis Lasden................  Peabody................  MA              AA Flight 11
Marianne MacFarlane.................  Revere.................  MA              UA Flight 175
Capt. Gerald Francis Deconto........  Sandwich...............  MA              Pentagon
Anna Williams Allison...............  Stoneham...............  MA              AA Flight 11
Peter Morgan Goodrich...............  Sudbury................  MA              UA Flight 175
Cora Hidalgo Holland................  Sudbury................  MA              AA Flight 11
Robert Adrien Jalbert...............  Swampscott.............  MA              UA Flight 175
Peter el-Hachem.....................  Tewksbury..............  MA              AA Flight 11
Peter Alan Gay......................  Tewksbury..............  MA              AA Flight 11
Christoffer Mikael Carstanjen.......  Turner Falls...........  MA              UA Flight 175
David DiMeglio......................  Wakefield..............  MA              AA Flight 11
Jane Louise Simpkin.................  Wayland................  MA              UA Flight 175
John Brett Cahill...................  Wellesley..............  MA              UA Flight 175
Neilie Anne Heffernan Casey.........  Wellesley..............  MA              AA Flight 11
Edmund Glazer.......................  Wellesley..............  MA              AA Flight 11
Patrick J. Quigley VI...............  Wellesley..............  MA              UA Flight 175
Mark Lawrence Bavis.................  West Newton............  MA              UA Flight 175
Linda M. George.....................  Westboro...............  MA              AA Flight 11
Robin Kaplan........................  Westboro...............  MA              AA Flight 11
James E. Hayden.....................  Westford...............  MA              UA Flight 175
Susan A. MacKay.....................  Westford...............  MA              AA Flight 11
Dianne Bulls Snyder.................  Westport Point.........  MA              AA Flight 11
Patrick Currivan....................  Winchester.............  MA              AA Flight 11
Kathleen Ann Nicosia................  Winthrop...............  MA              AA Flight 11
Tara Kathleen Creamer...............  Worcester..............  MA              AA Flight 11
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