Political Quotes

“soon after the tragic events of September 11, I went down to the Pentagon so that I could witness firsthand the destruction that was visited upon that spectacular building. As I made my way through the security lines and came to the perimeter that had been set up about 75 to 100 yards away from the actual destruction, I looked up and saw in full glimpse what a gaping hole that really was. The smoke and the ashes were still wafting from the rubble. The next noticeable thing, which everyone had to observe who visited that scene, were hundreds of people still working in the rubble, sorting out different objects, pulling bodies and parts of bodies from the wreckage, and engaged in humanitarian efforts the like of which I hope we never see again but which were part of the normal scene at the Pentagon in that moment. What was more amazing than anything was that in the second perimeter back of the immediate stage of recovery was something like a ring of covered wagons that we used to see in the Wild West movies, and these wagons were the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, McDonald's, and different food and beverage outfits that had, in effect, set up what they called a unity village, where the workers, who were exhausted, could go back and lie down for an hour, they had rest areas, or they could get a cup of coffee, or a full meal at some of the places.”