[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12353]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      A DAY SEARED INTO OUR MEMORY

  (Mr. DOLD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOLD. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, September 11, is a day that will 
live in our memory forever. For those old enough to remember Pearl 
Harbor, that was a day that was seared into their memory. For those in 
the early 1960s, November 1963, the day that President Kennedy was shot 
will live in their memory forever. Everyone remembers where they were 
when they heard the news.
  But September 11, 2001, was a day that changed our world forever. 
Ultimately, we know that on that day, as the first plane hit the World 
Trade Center, we thought it was a terrible accident. When the second 
plane came in and hit that tower, we knew that it was something vastly 
different. We were under attack, and, frankly, our way of life was 
under attack.
  We are trained, Mr. Speaker, as young children to run away from 
danger, but our first responders are trained the opposite--to run 
towards it. And so that fateful day, as people were exiting the World 
Trade Center, we had our first responders who were running in to try to 
save as many people as possible.
  What was also interesting is that on Flight 93, we had citizens on 
that plane who realized what was going on as they got word to their 
loved ones and put the lives of Americans in front of their own. That 
plane was coming, most likely, to this building right here, Mr. 
Speaker.
  So on the day after September 11, I want to make sure that Americans 
realize that we thank our first responders, and we thank those who are 
in uniform, those in our intelligence community who are trying to 
protect and save the United States of America from ever experiencing 
that type of attack again.
  Again, God bless America. God bless our first responders and those in 
uniform.

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