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On the recordDecember 13, 2011
This year represents the 10th year since our country was attacked by terrorists and it forever changed our Nation. The events that took place on September 11, 2001, will be forever embedded into every American soul. I, being a New Yorker, on that day can recall with vivid memory that I was in the city because it was an Election Day in New York, a beautiful day in New York, and being pulled to the television by some individuals that our Nation was under attack. I could then look out from the venue where I was and literally see the two towers. Then getting on the phone to talk to individuals, many and some of whom were racing to the scene of the tragedy--not racing from it. Our first responders were racing to it because they wanted to help their fellow human beings. These were heroes, indeed, and we use the word ``heroes'' sometimes as a manner of course. But if you want to talk about a heroic act, when and in the time of crisis, individuals willing to put their own lives on the line to help a fellow human being, I tell you, the first responders, the officers, the emergency workers and others indeed are truly American heroes.…
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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