Ambassador Ruth A. Davis: Ceremony in Remembrance of the Victims of the September 11th Attacks [audio clip transcript][audio] Ambassador Ruth A. Davis, Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources "Commemoration of September 11" Dean Acheson Auditorium Good Morning. The President has asked all of us to pause for a few moments this morning - exactly three months to the minute -- to recall the events of September 11, and to sing our National Anthem. All of us know exactly where we were and what we were doing on that morning. Who we were talking to. When we first heard the terrible news. How we spent the hours immediately afterwards. It is one of those dates that will bind our generation together, that we will not forget, and which we shouldn’t allow to be forgotten. Thank you, therefore, for joining me - and all your State Department colleagues - at this very brief ceremony in the Dean Acheson Auditorium. Americans will not be alone in playing or singing their National Anthem this morning. In many other countries across the world --in many of the more than 80 countries that lost citizens on September 11- others will also be pausing as well, to remember the victims with the playing of their own national songs. Our ceremony here will begin with the playing of the National Anthem, precisely at 8:46 AM. |
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