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Jerry Nadler: September 11 is a day that will never be forgotten. Over 5,000 of our friends, neighbors, family members, heroes died…

On the recordOctober 25, 2001
September 11 is a day that will never be forgotten. Over 5,000 of our friends, neighbors, family members, heroes died while doing nothing but going to work in what may be the greatest one-day tragedy in the history of the United States. This attack on the United States was not a military attack. It was an attack on civilians. It was a deliberate attempt, a successful attempt, to kill as many American civilians as possible for the simple and great crime of being Americans. This we will never forget and we must never forget. We must not allow ourselves to forget how vulnerable we have become and how we must change that vulnerability.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Remembering the victims of the September 11 attacks during a House floor speech.

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