[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5558]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             BOSTON TRAGEDY

  (Mr. FORTENBERRY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FORTENBERRY. Mr. Speaker, we are all still reeling from the 
senseless violence that was perpetrated on the community of Boston. I 
live a long way from Boston; but, like many Americans, I'm trying to 
make sense of the senseless.
  How can someone so cowardly kill with such randomness--targeting 
innocent people who just wanted to enjoy a great American tradition in 
a great American city?
  Last night, I read a Boston Globe article about the attack. Two 
runners, a father and a daughter, were in the 26th mile when they heard 
the explosions. Natalie Stavas' immediate reaction was to run to the 
scene, as depleted as she was, leaping over a barricade. The police 
then yelled at her to stop, but she yelled back, ``I'm a pediatric 
doctor; you have to let me through.'' She began to tend to the wounded. 
Her father, Dr. Joe Stavas, noticed that the other runners were quickly 
growing cold. He tended to an elderly man who had no pulse and who was 
experiencing hypothermia.
  Both Natalie and Joe are Nebraskans--good Americans who reacted with 
great selflessness in the midst of great tragedy.

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