CORRECTIVE REPRINT
PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1327 PRINTER'S NO. 1342
No. 108 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY KASUNIC, ARMSTRONG, BELL, BODACK, BOSCOLA,
BRIGHTBILL, CONTI, CORMAN, COSTA, DENT, EARLL, ERICKSON,
FUMO, GERLACH, GREENLEAF, HELFRICK, HOLL, HUGHES, JUBELIRER,
KITCHEN, KUKOVICH, LAVALLE, LEMMOND, LOGAN, MADIGAN, MELLOW,
MOWERY, MURPHY, MUSTO, O'PAKE, ORIE, PICCOLA, PUNT, RHOADES,
ROBBINS, SCARNATI, SCHWARTZ, STACK, STOUT, TARTAGLIONE,
THOMPSON, TOMLINSON, WAGNER, WAUGH, WENGER, D. WHITE,
M. WHITE, WILLIAMS AND WOZNIAK, SEPTEMBER 25, 2001
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, SEPTEMBER 25, 2001
A RESOLUTION
1 Condemning the acts of terrorism committed on September 11,
2 2001, and honoring the heroism of the passengers of United
3 Airlines Flight 93.
4 WHEREAS, On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, four commercial
5 jetliners were hijacked in the skies over the United States in a
6 cowardly and reprehensible act of terrorism; and
7 WHEREAS, One of those planes, United Airlines Flight 93,
8 bound from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California,
9 crashed near Shanksville, Somerset County, killing all 40
10 passengers and crew; and
11 WHEREAS, The following people were victims of the attack:
12 Captain Jason Dahl
13 First Officer Leroy Homer
14 Flight Attendant Wanda A. Green
15 Flight Attendant Lorraine G. Bay
1 Flight Attendant Ceecee Lyles
2 Flight Attendant Sandra W. Bradshaw
3 Flight Attendant Deborah A. Welsh
4 Christian Adams
5 Kristin Gould
6 Todd Beamer
7 Lauren Grandcolas
8 Alan Beaven
9 Donald Greene
10 Mark Bingham
11 Linda Gronlund
12 Thomas Burnett
13 Richard Guadagno
14 William Cashman
15 Toshiya Kuge
16 Georgine Corrigan
17 Hilda Marcin
18 Joseph Deluca
19 Waleska Martinez
20 Patrick Driscoll
21 Nicole Miller
22 Edward Felt
23 Louis J. Nacke
24 Jane C. Folger
25 Donald Peterson
26 Colleen Fraser
27 Mark Rothenberg
28 Andrew Garcia
29 John Talignani
30 Jeremy Glick
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1 Honor Elizabeth Wainio
2 Deora Bodley
3 Marion Britton
4 Patricia Cushing
5 Jean Peterson
6 Christine Snyder
7 ; and
8 WHEREAS, The terrorism in the skies over Pennsylvania was met
9 and ultimately defeated by the heroism of the passengers aboard
10 United Airlines Flight 93, passengers who tried to regain
11 control of their plane and ultimately ensured that it was not
12 used as a weapon of greater destruction; and
13 WHEREAS, Those passengers risked and ultimately gave their
14 lives to protect thousands of lives of their countrymen; and
15 WHEREAS, Residents of Somerset County and State and local
16 emergency personnel responded to the crash quickly and with
17 great compassion and professionalism; and
18 WHEREAS, State emergency personnel continue to work with
19 Federal authorities to secure and investigate the crash scene;
20 therefore be it
21 RESOLVED, That the Senate condemn the craven acts of
22 terrorism that claimed the lives of thousands of innocent
23 Americans on September 11, 2001; and be it further
24 RESOLVED, That the Senate extend its deepest sympathy to the
25 family and friends of those who perished aboard United Airlines
26 Flight 93 and to the family and friends of all victims of the
27 terrorist attack of September 11, 2001; and be it further
28 RESOLVED, That the Senate honor the selfless heroism of those
29 aboard United Airlines Flight 93 and grieve their passing; and
30 be it further
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1 RESOLVED, That the Senate recognize that an attack against
2 one American is an attack against all Americans and that we can
3 and must join together as Americans to cope with our grief and
4 defeat the scourge of terrorism throughout the world; and be it
5 further
6 RESOLVED, That the Senate urge all Pennsylvanians and all
7 Americans to work together to recover from our shared national
8 tragedy, to pray together for those who have lost loved ones and
9 to grow together as one nation and one people, indivisible; and
10 be it further
11 RESOLVED, That the Senate recognize that Americans have a
12 broad range of ethnic and religious backgrounds and urge all
13 Americans, whatever their background, to join together in a
14 spirit of tolerance and compassion as we confront our loss and
15 build our future; and be it further
16 RESOLVED, That the Senate resolve, as President Abraham
17 Lincoln said at Gettysburg nearly 138 years ago:
18 that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this
19 nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom --
20 and that government of the people, by the people, for the
21 people, shall not perish from the earth.
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