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Harry Reid: “I have just been handed a note that says a U.S. missile attack is underway. Keep in mind that this is being telecast to…”

On the recordOctober 9, 2001
I have just been handed a note that says a U.S. missile attack is underway. Keep in mind that this is being telecast to 11 million members of the church and millions of others who are watching. He went on to say: You are all acutely aware of the events of September 11, less than a month ago. Out of that vicious and ugly attack we are plunged into a state of war. It is the first war of the 21st century. The last century has been described as the most war-torn in human history. Now we are off on another dangerous undertaking, the unfolding of which and the end thereof we do not know. For the first time since we became a nation, the United States has been seriously attacked on its mainland soil.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

Editor's note · Context

Discussing a statement by the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints regarding the events following September 11.

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