Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appeared to choke back tears as he and a host of other government leaders joined family members outside the Pentagon on Thursday to break ground on a new memorial to honor those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace; Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va.; and U.S. Sens. John Warner and George Allen, both R-Va., were among dozens of guests who attended the event on what Rumsfeld said is now “sacred ground.”
Rumsfeld said the memorial will show future generations where “people with different lives and different dreams” each “became targets because they were free Americans.”
