Abstract
On September 12, 2002, the defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, presided over the burial with full military honors of a single casket in Arlington National Cemetery containing both unidentified and identified remains representing all 184 victims of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, a group that included civilian and military personnel on the ground and the crew and passengers of American Airlines Flight 77. Military spokespeople had taken great pains to ensure the public that none of the hijackers’ remains were among those in the coffin. Before the interment, Rumsfeld addressed a crowd of more than one thousand mourners in the Memorial Amphitheater at the Tomb of the Unknowns; it
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