On the recordSeptember 11, 2003
It was a day that was truly inspiring if you look at public service, but also if you look at the sacrifice that others made on September 11 and since that time, and others who continue to make right now in Iraq and Afghanistan to preserve the freedoms and liberties that we have. We opened this morning with a commemoration, a bell ringing, and had a moment of silence with that glorious sound of that bell dramatically ringing for each of the incidents and the tragedies that occurred on September 11. Over the course of the day on this floor, we have heard our colleagues on both sides of the aisle reminisce, talk about what they were doing then but also how they have been affected as public servants in dealing with others, how people have been brought together, how the common threads which bind all of us have been stressed a little bit more the last couple of years than maybe in the previous years.
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