Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Holds Remembrance Ceremony
Originally broadcast live on Tuesday, December 11, 2001

Event Description: American leaders take every opportunity to tell the world why the United States is fighting a war against global terrorism. President Bush asked the citizens of the world to show on Dec. 11 that they, too, understand the need to stand up against terror. He asked countries to hold remembrance events and to play their national anthems at the exact moment the first terrorist-hijacked airplane struck the World Trade Center in New York: 8:46 a.m. Eastern time. Bush lead the initiative at 8:46 a.m. EST with a White House ceremony and the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by the U.S. Marine Corps Band. He asked the United Nations and all U.S. embassies, installations and agencies to hold similar events. Following a remembrance ceremony at the White House, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld held a brief remembrance at 9:30 a.m. at the Pentagon helicopter pad, at the time and near the spot where terrorists crashed their hijacked airliner into the building three months ago. U.S. service members at installations around the world are urged to participate. The initiative grew out of a Taliban communiqué released Nov. 20 stating that the United States should "forget" about the attacks of Sept. 11. White House officials said the United States refuses to forget the thousands of victims from more than 80 countries who perished in the attacks in New York, at the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field.

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