Ted Poe: “On a cool September morning in Texas, I was driving my Jeep to the courthouse where I was a judge for a long time. I was…”

“On a cool September morning in Texas, I was driving my Jeep to the courthouse where I was a judge for a long time. I was listening to KILT radio, a country western station. Willie Nelson was singing ``Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.'' All of the sudden, Robert B. McEntire, the newscaster for KILT radio, comes on and interrupts the program. He said that an airplane had crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center, and that's about all we knew at that time. It was 8:46 a.m. eastern time, 7:46 a.m. in Texas. Continuing my daily journey to the courthouse, a few minutes later he comes back on the radio and says that a second airplane had crashed into the second south tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The world understood at that time this was serious. This was an attack on our Nation, on our country. After I got to the courthouse, we learned that a third airplane flying over Washington, D.C., very close to the building we're in, the United States Capitol, went down the street less than a mile, and crashed into the Pentagon. That was at 9:37 eastern time. Then a fourth airplane we remember as Flight 93 was flying toward Washington, D.C., probably headed to the Capitol or the White House, where some good, right-thinking folks took control of the plane from hijackers, and they crashed in Pennsylvania in a field at 10:07 eastern standard time. Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, this Nation was attacked. Three thousand people were killed that day.…”