John Hansen: “it was our friend, the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Sam Johnson, who served about 6 years in Hanoi as a prisoner of war. He…”

“it was our friend, the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Sam Johnson, who served about 6 years in Hanoi as a prisoner of war. He states that on his cell wall he had a little statement that said, ``Freedom has a taste to it to those who fought and almost died that the protected will never understand.'' I guess the events of Tuesday brought us a lot closer to understanding what could occur. We see where freedom is challenged by another nation if it may be a nation, which it is not but a group of people who have some funny attitudes. Today, I had the opportunity of going over to the Pentagon and standing there and looking at what occurred. Apparently, there were two people standing there as that plane went over their heads. They actually felt they had to duck as it went over their heads, standing right outside of the Pentagon. They said at that point that they throttled up, as we used to say in the Navy, we two-blocked the throttle, and went in. Imagine that tonnage of airplane hitting that Pentagon at that speed. A lot of people died; a very painful situation. But this thing can be made right. And it should be, and these people will be ferreted out. And I am confident they will be destroyed. That is what should occur. Freedom has a taste to it and we better learn to understand it.”