By Jim McNally
U.S. Rep Virginia Foxx said Wednesday that “history changed” as a result of the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
Foxx noted that in addition to Wednesday marking the 12th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, the day also marked one year since an attack was made on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
“In an unprovoked attack that sought to bring America to its knees,” Foxx said in a statement, “the world was reminded instead that ours is a nation of heroes – where people run toward danger for the sake of their fellow man; where a new generation of protectors, knowing full well the risk, chose to answer its country’s call to defend liberty and pursue peace.”
Regarding Benghazi, Foxx said, “We mourn the lives of the four dear Americans we lost to terror in Benghazi and pledge justice on their behalf.”
Foxx made and allusion to the Dec. 7, 1941, attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor in what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called, “A day which will live in infamy.”
She called Sept. 11 “another infamous date for our Republic,” but one that “revealed the strength and resolve of American character, and proved once again to the adversaries of liberty that the champions of freedom will not be stopped. We will never waver, we will not cede strength, and we will stand firm as the last best hope of earth.”
