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Rick Allen: “words are inadequate to express the agony we feel today for those who lost their lives yesterday, for their families…”

On the recordSeptember 11, 2001
words are inadequate to express the agony we feel today for those who lost their lives yesterday, for their families, and for this country. But we will recover, rebuild and move on. In the dark days of late 1941, it was Winston Churchill, speaking for the Western allies, who said, ``We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains and across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.'' We are not. In truth, the people of this country are big in heart and strong in character. We will maintain our open society and fight terrorism around the globe with freedom-loving peoples everywhere, and we will prevail.
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Rick Allen
Republican · Georgia
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Addressing the nation in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

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