WEST POINT – As traumatic as it was for US Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand to see first-hand the massive devastation that last week’s heavy rains and floods caused at the US Military Academy at West Point, it really hit home to Congressman Pat Ryan (D, NY-18).
Ryan spent four years of his life as a West Point cadet and then served two tours of duty in Iraq.
“It’s really heavy for me to fly over and see the community that raised me, that I love, that formed me as Senator Schumer said, so hurt, so devastated, not just physically, but talking to folks and looking at the damage it’s really a gut punch to see your community flooded, to see the tragic loss of life,” he said on Monday.
Ryan said officials are channeling the grief and frustration into constructive urgency.
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