Joe Lieberman: “I am proud of what my colleagues have said thus far in this discussion and very grateful to be a part of it. In New York…”

“I am proud of what my colleagues have said thus far in this discussion and very grateful to be a part of it. In New York City today, they are reading the names of the victims, the names of 3,000 of God's children, magnificent in their characteristic American diversity, whose lives were savagely taken on September 11 of last year simply because they were American. None of us here can say anything as powerful or profound as the recitation of those names today. The Pentagon, the World Trade Center, and that field outside Shanksville, PA, will forever be hallowed battlegrounds, places where we will take our children to stand silently and contemplate their meaning, places of worship, really, where we will revere the lives lost and honor their place in our history.”