Felix Grucci: “I rise as so many do here this evening to speak about the atrocities that have happened with a very heavy heart. In my…”

“I rise as so many do here this evening to speak about the atrocities that have happened with a very heavy heart. In my district there are men and women who went to work yesterday morning to work at the World Trade Center, and they never returned home. Their children have no mother or father, and their families will forever be touched. I ask why. Why does something like this happen? Was that a military installation that was targeted for attack? The answer is, no. It was a building where men and women shopped and worked, and children from schools would go to ride the elevator to the top floor to look out over the horizon of the New York City skylines to New Jersey and out to Long Island. I ask myself did those people do something wrong. The answer is no, they did nothing wrong. Why? The answer is there is no answer to a question like that. When people are born and bred to be evil as those who have perpetrated this crime against society have been, there is only one answer, and that answer is to eradicate that evil from our society so that freedom-loving people, people who wish to live with the liberties that we enjoy in this country, the same kinds of liberties that have brought many people through our gates and through the outstretched arms of the Statute of Liberty, to find a new home and to find a life in this country because we allow those types of liberties to our people who live here. Mr. Speaker, yesterday is not going to take that away.…”