and without its minor to turn this over to my colleague christie houlahan. >> thank you representative crow and good afternoon. it's an honor and privilege and it's very humbling to be standing here amongst these heroes as representative crow mentioned an officer hodges and officer dunn i'm grateful for your services. i'm christie houlahan in the philadelphia area and as an elected official from the area and elected officials from all areas most of us engage in sincere efforts to be nuanced and not to be too polarizing and the way we talk to our communities. we choose phrases like deeply disappointed or extremely worrisome are very concerned frequently. there a lot of ranges of agreement and disagreement but today those kind words fail us because they are totally and completely inadequate to describe our feelings as we stand here. because i'm here this afternoon personally as it better and is taken in oath to protect their homeland to keep us from dangerous foreign domestic i'm also here is a daughter and granddaughter of veteran and here it is a personal or family who served as the po