Senate Proceeding on Sep 11th, 2008 :: 0:12:11 to 0:21:19
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Speech By: Sherrod Brown

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Sherrod Brown: of time he and his employees put into this work. nearly 17,000 hours grinding and polish of these stainless steel benches, transforming them into perfectly uniform, flawlsly smooth memorials. they hoped,

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Richard Durbin: abe and his workers, that by making each bench perfect, they might be able to give something back to a country that has given them so much. they hope that the calm, clear lines of their work might

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Speech By: Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: bring a sense of healing to a wounded nation and bring some beauty to a place scarred. many peoe will look at cro this memorial, see these finely polished stainly steel benches and assume that somewhere

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Richard Durbin: there was a machine that just churned them out. no it was the hard work and sweat of abe useff and his employees who took this on not just as another project but as a project of love. when i think of

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Richard Durbin: 9/11, i recall, as every american does, what i was doing. just a few steps away from here in the capitol building, a meet meeting of the democratic leadership with senator tom daschle. the meet

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Richard Durbin: handgun just started when we heard about the plains crashing into the world trade center in new york. as the meeting continued, tom was handed a note that we were going to have to evacuate the capitol.

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Richard Durbin: we looked down the mall toward the washington memorial and saw black billowing smoke coming from across the river. we didn't know what had happened happened. thought perhaps a bomb had been detonated.

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Richard Durbin: in fact it was american airlines flight 77 that had crashed into the pentagon, create ing creating so many deaths of so many innocent people. we evacuated and raced to the yard here outside the capitol.

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Richard Durbin: people milling around not knowing where to turn. we heard the sonic booms from jets that were being scrambled and wondered if they were detonations of bombs or something worse. we just didn't know. one

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Richard Durbin: of the staffers that i had at that time was pat sergeant . pat is an officer in the united states army and occasionally the army will detail some of its professionals to work on capitol hill for a short

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Richard Durbin: time. pat was terrific, one of our best employees. but he had a special interest in the pentagon that day because his wife sherri, also in the united states army, was working there. when pat heard

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Richard Durbin: about the smoke and damage at the pentagon, he raced out to catch the last commuter bus that runs between capitol hill and the pentagon, the last one to make it across the bridge. he was desperate to find

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Richard Durbin: his wife. he went there and there was a satisfy humanity of people who'd evacuated the pentagon lined up on the hills around and he searched and sexed until he finally found her and she was safe.

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Richard Durbin: that w the good news of the day along with the tragedy that so many of her fellow workers had died. sherri had been in a room near the spot where that plane had crashed. she lingered for a moment to

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Richard Durbin: watch the scenes in new york on television while some of her fellow workers went back to their desks. those workers perished when the plane crashed into the pentagon. she was spared. of course they

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Richard Durbin: appreciate the heroism of those who responded and all the memorials that were given to this country. but i want to give a special tribute to pat and sherri and their daughter is a man that for -- savment

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Richard Durbin: mantha for their dead diecious this country. when pat left my office, he continued to serve in the united states army. he is in iraq today in a command position with major responsibilities for the medical

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Richard Durbin: care of our troops and the people of iraq. he is a true american hero, as is his wife. they have given so much to this country. i thank the lord that they were spared that day, that they were able

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Richard Durbin: to continue in their service to the country like so many others. but i remember those that worked alongside her were not so fortunate. every year on september 11, we ranking member the horror and shock

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Richard Durbin: of that day and the grief that followed. but we remember something else. we remember the tremendous sense of unity that enveloped our nation. buck o'neil is a man who was legendary in the negro leagues

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Richard Durbin: as a baseball player. of course, in those days a black man couldn't make it to the majors. he became a scout for the chicago cubs and aside other people such as lou brock. he wrote a newspaper column.

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Richard Durbin: he's passed away now, but wrote a newspaper column about a year after the 9/11 attacks, and he said, "one thing about it the attacks brought us together. for a little while there after september 11,

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Richard Durbin: it didn't matter if you were a democrat or republican. it didn't matter if you were white or black. we were americans. we gave blood, we gave money. we cried. we all cried. that's the america we can

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Richard Durbin: be. this is a wonderful country." he remembered in his youth some hateful things that were done to him because of his race. he said, "when i was a young man, i used to see the way hate ripped this

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Richard Durbin: country apart. a man would hate me just for the color of my skin. i didn't feel angry. i felt sorry for the man. i wanted to say to them, don't you know how great america would be if we all got along."

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Richard Durbin: that is what buck o'neil said he saw after september 11. he went on to conclude, i wish we could hold on to that feeling. there were strong emotions today at the pentagon, in new york and across the

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Richard Durbin: nation as we remember the seventh anniversary of 9/11. but let us remember 9 skhr-rbs -- remember 9/12, the strength we felt at home and the projected strength we felt around the world. those days

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Richard Durbin: can return. it is up to each one of us, whether elected officials or people going home and to work to raise a family to make that spirit come together. mr. president, i yield the floor. a senator:

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Richard Durbin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new jersey is recognized. mr. menendez: mr. president, i rise today to commemorate those that we lost on september 11 of 2001, to remember how our

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Richard Durbin: nation responded to the pain we felt that day when a towering display of terrorism and to urge us to dedicate ourselves to making sure we never have to experience terror on our soil again. that day the

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Richard Durbin: families and friends of nearly 3,000 americans got the worst news imaginable, and 700 of them almost were from my home state of new jersey. they were from all walks of life. we lost mothers, fathers

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Richard Durbin: and children. brothers lost their sisters. neighbors lost their friends. today in new jersey you can go from town to town, from englewood to west windsor and hoboken and you can see a ceremony

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Richard Durbin: in each one. families in those towns are laying flowers on the gravestones and monuments and holding tightly one more time on to the pictures of the ones they lost. so many communities were affected in so many

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Richard Durbin: ways. not the least of which was the american community. it felt like a day when there were no borders between us. terrorists tried to engulf us in the smoke of fear and hatred, and for a moment we

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Robert Menendez: felt like the wholeho world went dark. but the light of heroism burst through. individuals went into burning buildings to save others fplt strangers opened up their homes to help people they didn't

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Speech By: Robert Menendez