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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel offers remarks during a remembrance ceremony to honor the victims of the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon at the Pentagon Memorial, Sept. 11, 2013. Hagel, President Barack Obama, right, and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, (not pictured), chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke at the event for family members of those killed in the terrorist attack twelve years ago.

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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel offers remarks during a remembrance ceremony to honor the victims of the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon at the Pentagon Memorial, Sept. 11, 2013. Hagel, President Barack Obama, right, and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, (not pictured), chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke at the event for family members of those killed in the terrorist attack twelve years ago.

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