Ed Markey: “I rise as one of the hundreds of cosponsors of this resolution today to commemorate the victims of the terrorist attacks…”

“I rise as one of the hundreds of cosponsors of this resolution today to commemorate the victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and to honor the families who grieve and the heroes who served on that terrible day in American history. American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 took off for the West Coast early in the morning from Logan Airport in Boston. The Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked and redirected these planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, a crossroads of international trade and commerce. In Newark, New Jersey, and in Washington, DC, similar teams of terrorists aimed Flight 77 towards the symbol of American strength, the Pentagon, and took Flight 93 toward the symbol of American democracy, the Capitol dome. We remember and honor the brave men and women aboard Flight 93, who overwhelmed the Al Qaeda operatives of Flight 93 to prevent a devastating fourth blow to America--an attack on this very Capitol Building. Instead, they crashed that plane into a field in Pennsylvania and saved thousands of others from the tragedy that was visited upon the Pentagon and the Twin Towers. The resolution we will pass today commemorates this day in American history and the more than 3,000 lives lost--some 93 from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts alone.”