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America
Attacked: THE PENTAGON —
A series of images taken by Washington
Post photographers of events surrounding the Sept. 11
attack on the Pentagon to Oct. 11, the day of the Pentagon
remembrance ceremony for the victims.
The images are set to the music of Samuel Barber's "Adagio
for Strings" performed by the National Symphony
Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, Music Director, The John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Live concert
recording from "Concert for America" by WETA-FM.
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American
Forces Press Service
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December 4, 2002
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Personnel,
War, Readiness Priorities of Authorization Act
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
Dec. 2, 2002 —
The National Defense Authorization Act for 2003 funds the military
portion of the global war on terror and the continuing transformation
of the U.S. military to face the threats of the 21st century.
President Bush signed the bill into law Dec. 2 during a ceremony at
the Pentagon. The act actually allows DoD to spend money released
under the 2003 National Defense Appropriations Act, which Bush signed
Oct. 23.
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Bush Signs
Authorization Act, Gives Review of War on Terror
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
Dec. 2, 2002 —
President Bush used the occasion of signing the 2003 National Defense
Authorization Act to chart the course of the war on terror and to
tell a Pentagon crowd that Iraq's responses to date "are not
encouraging."
Bush thanked military and civilian personnel at the Pentagon for their
service. He said the U.S. military is performing its missions with
skill and speed.
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Defense
Department Unveils Pentagon Memorial Finalists
By Kathleen T.
Rhem
American Forces
Press Service
Oct. 17, 2002 —
More than 1,100 people submitted designs for a memorial to those killed
in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon. Defense officials today
announced the six designs selected as finalists.
After the attack, DoD put out a call around the world for ideas on
how best to remember the event and its victims. An 11-member panel
of artists, designers, family members of those killed in the attack,
and two former secretaries of defense took three days to choose the
finalists from among the 1,126 qualified entries.
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Rumsfeld
Describes Guidelines for Committing American Troops
By Kathleen
T. Rhem
American Forces Press Service
Oct. 17, 2002 —
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today gave the world a peek at how
he thinks.
At a Pentagon press briefing this afternoon, Rumsfeld described guidelines
he wrote upon taking office to help him decide when to recommend President
Bush commit American military forces.
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Pentagon
Phoenix Project Workers Are Heroes, Wolfowitz Says
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
Sept. 11, 2002
— Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz today praised construction
workers and others who helped to make the Pentagon whole again one
year after Flight 77 slammed into the building's western wall.
Speaking for the department at the Phoenix Project worker appreciation
ceremony today, Wolfowitz conveyed the secretary's thanks to the workers
for a job well done. He also received an award on Rumsfeld's behalf
from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Advisory
Council for Historic Preservation.
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Reflections
on Sept. 11, A Day of Terror
By Rudi Williams
American Forces Press Service
Sept. 11, 2002
— Sept. 11, 2001, was a helluva welcome to the Pentagon, Army
Spc. John W. Hoffman, 26, recalls today.
It was his second day on his new job, he said, when he and two civilian
co-workers were knocked to the floor by a huge explosion. An airliner
had slammed into the building about 100 feet from their new office.
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One
Year After: Pentagon People, Others, Discuss 9-11
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
Sept. 11, 2002
— When a hijacked
airliner destroyed 184 innocent lives
here a year ago today, life at the Pentagon became horribly surreal
for victims'
families and the building's military and civilian employees.
The old, battered western facade, scarred by licking flames and searing
smoke, was demolished. Today, the Pentagon has a brand-new, bright
limestone wall. Gone, too, are the confused cries, screaming sirens
— and death.
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Greatest
Tasks Face U.S. Military, Bush Says
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
Sept. 11, 2002
— President Bush said that "the greatest tasks and the greatest
dangers will fall to the armed forces of the United States" as
the country continues its war on the terrorists who struck America
Sept. 11, 2001.
Bush, speaking at the Pentagon observance of the one-year anniversary
of the attacks, said the nation mourns all those who died in New York,
Pennsylvania and Virginia. "The murder of innocents cannot be
explained, only endured," he said. "And though they died
in tragedy, they did not die in vain."
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Rumsfeld,
Myers Remember the Slain, Gird for Future
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
Sept. 11, 2002
— Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld echoed Abraham Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address when he told those attending the Pentagon observance
of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack "that we meet on a battlefield"
of the war on terrorism.
"For a battle was joined on that day — a battle still unfolding
between a nation of free people and forces that seek to plunge that
nation and, indeed, the free world into the darkness of tyranny and
terror," Rumsfeld told the more than 10,000 people gathered by
the west wall of the Pentagon.
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