WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto issued the following press release:

Washington, D.C. -U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) released the following statement in recognition of the 25th anniversary of September 11th, 2001:

"I remember the morning of September 11, 2001, starting off like any other day. I was a federal prosecutor at the time, and I had gone to court that morning in Washington, D.C. for a hearing. I was outside in Judiciary Square, figuring out how to leave the evacuation area, when I heard a loud blast - what I later learned was the sound of the Pentagon crumbling after being hit by Flight 77. Twenty-five years later, I still don't have words to describe the horror and the pain of that dark day in o...