Like a lot of lawmakers who represent areas impacted by the 9/11 al Qaeda terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 in 2001, Virginia Rep. Barbara Comstock spent Tuesday at events called to remember and honor the dead.
For her the day has a special meaning because in American Airlines Flight 77 that struck the Pentagon after New York’s Twin Towers were hit was her longtime colleague and friend Barbara Olson.
Honoring our first responders and the nearly 3,000 lives lost on September 11th with the @LoudounSheriff bagpipes in Purcellville. #VA10 pic.twitter.com/gHePKfKM7o
— Barbara Comstock (@RepComstock) September 12, 2018
Comstock, whose northern Virginia district includes many who were at the Pentagon that day, both as military and civilian workers and first responders, attended five different events stretching from Winchester, Va. to Arlington, Va. She tweeted 11 times about 9/11.
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Fantastic evening at @WinchesterBrew with over 100 Democrats for the @WFCDCVA’s Rally in the Valley! pic.twitter.com/ditUrYfWY7
— Jennifer Wexton (@JenniferWexton) September 12, 2018
On Facebook she wrote, “As we traveled around the district today — Patriot Day — to commemorate and honor those lost on this tragic day, we made connections with those who had sacrificed and suffered on that day and since. There are still so many stories of heroes still to be told from that single day and at many events across our district today we met those heroes and heard of their stories. Never forget.”
Admiral Flagg was most likely the pilot who my friend, Barbara Olson, was speaking of when she spoke with her husband Solicitor General Ted Olson from the plane that AM and asked Ted, “What should I tell the pilot to do?” Very special to be with Mike on this day of remembrance. pic.twitter.com/AsRk3REn7v
— Barbara Comstock (@RepComstock) September 11, 2018
At one event, she even set politics aside and joined with two of her past election opponents, Kathleen Murphy and John Foust.
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Here reelection challenger this year, Virginia State Sen. Jennifer Wexton, didn’t join Comstock at key 10th District 9/11 events but did host a political fundraiser in Winchester at the brewery Winchester Brew Works. “Rally in the Valley,” she tweeted.
She did send out a recycled 2017 9/11 tweet, “Today we remember and honor the victims of 9/11 #NeverForget.”
