Frank Pallone: “I was really happy this morning in Long Branch because there were so many young people there, about 4,000 people, as I…”

“I was really happy this morning in Long Branch because there were so many young people there, about 4,000 people, as I said, maybe from kindergarten all the way to 12th grade from my home community. I think they were listening very attentively to the various speeches being made and they understood that the people who lost their lives on September 11 really were heroes to the American way. The most important thing I think we need to do as we continue to commemorate September 11, and in Long Branch actually said they plan on doing the ceremony every September 11 because they wanted to teach, if you will, the students and the young people about the significance of September 11, that it is important that from now on, not only today, but in the future, that we continue to commemorate the day and we continue to commemorate those people who lost their lives and the heroes that tried to help the victims, the firefighters, the police, because if we forget it, then we are not paying proper respect to them, and we must continue to point out that this democracy that we live in and the freedoms that we so cherish are not easily come by, that people continue to sacrifice for them.”