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Senator Foley spoke on 9/21/01 and related two comments from constituents concerning the tragic events on 9/11/01. Those comments are presented here and a previous post.
An entire generation exists now who were born after 9/11/01; when 2,997 people were killed, across three locations. Remembrances for family and community reinforce the value of life.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker’s announced policy of January 3, 2001, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. FOLEY) is recognized during morning hour debates for 5 minutes.
Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the Speaker’s recognition. Certainly the people of Indiana are proud to see him in the chair, and we are delighted to be reconvening this Monday morning.
Today, I wanted to spend a moment on two things...............
Dianne Robbins from my district office sent this along. Her daughter sent it to her, Beth Horner.
‘‘On Monday we e-mailed jokes.
On Tuesday we did not.
On Monday we thought that we were secure.
On Tuesday we learned better.
On Monday we were talking about heroes as being athletes.
On Tuesday we relearned who our heroes are.
On Monday we were irritated that our rebate checks had not arrived.
On Tuesday we gave money away to people we had never met.
On Monday there were people fighting against praying in schools.
On Tuesday you would have been hard pressed to find a school where someone was not praying.
On Monday people argued with their kids about picking up their room.
On Tuesday the same people could not get home fast enough to hug their kids.
On Monday people were upset that they had to wait 6 minutes in a fast-food drive-through line.
On Tuesday people didn’t care about waiting up to 6 hours to give blood for the dying.
On Monday we waved our flags signifying our cultural diversity.
On Tuesday we waved only the American flag.
On Monday there were people trying to separate each other by race, sex, color and creed.
On Tuesday they were all holding hands.
On Monday we were men or women, black or white, old or young, rich or poor, gay or straight, Christian or non-Christian.
On Tuesday we were all Americans.
On Monday politicians argued about budget surpluses.
On Tuesday, grief stricken, they sang ‘God Bless America.’
On Monday the President was going to Florida to read to children.
On Tuesday he returned to Washington to protect our children.
On Monday we had families.
On Tuesday we had orphans.
On Monday people went to work as usual.
On Tuesday they died.
On Monday people were fighting the 10 Commandments on government property.
On Tuesday the same people all said ‘God help us all’ while thinking ‘Thou shall not kill.’’’
CREC-2001-09-24.pdf
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- Revisiting Comments 25 Years After 9/11/01 - Part 11 Senator Foley spoke on 9/21/01 and related two comments from constituents concerning the tragic events on 9/11/01. The first comment is here and the second in a separate post.
