"The Pentagon is functioning" was the message Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stressed during a press conference in the Pentagon briefing room barely eight hours after terrorists crashed a hijacked commercial jetliner into the national military headquarters on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Pictured left to right: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Henry Shelton, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and U.S. Senator John Warner (Republican of Virginia).... more »
"The Pentagon is functioning" was the message Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stressed during a press conference in the Pentagon briefing room barely eight hours after terrorists crashed a hijacked commercial jetliner into the national military headquarters on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Pictured left to right: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Henry Shelton, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and U.S. Senator John Warner (Republican of Virginia). .Mandatory Credit: Bob Houlihan - DoD via CNP. « less
