On the recordSeptember 10, 2004
Mr. President, this is a propitious moment. At exactly 8:46 tomorrow--Saturday--morning, we will observe the third anniversary of the crash of American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. That moment changed our Nation and our world forever--and in the hours and days that followed the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, we in public office undertook an important obligation. We vowed, in the memory of the nearly 3,000 innocent people who died that day, to take action to prevent attacks of that magnitude from ever happening again within our homeland. Unfortunately, one day before the third anniversary of 9/11, we have not met that commitment. We have failed to adequately focus on what it will take to fight this new threat, one that calls for new thinking and new governmental infrastructure.
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