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P 122100Z SEP 01 PSN 998633J38
 
FM SECNAV WASHINGTON DC
 
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ALNAV 087/01
 
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RMKS./1.  AMERICA'S NAVAL FORCES SHARE IN THE LOSS
AND SORROW OF YESTERDAYS ATTACK.
OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM, CIVILIANS AND
CONTRACTORS WERE PART OF THE NATION'S FAMILY THAT
GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR LIBERTY, FREEDOM AND OUR WAY OF LIFE.
2.  IN THE FACE OF AN UNSEEN ENEMY AND UNKNOWN DANGERS,
THE PENTAGON'S EVACUATION WAS PUNCTUATED BY ANONYMOUS
ACTS OF BRAVERY AND KINDNESS BY COUNTLESS NAVY AND MARINE
CORPS SERVICE MEMBERS AND CIVILIANS.
3.  IN THE DAYS AHEAD, WE WILL LEARN MORE ABOUT THESE
ATTACKS, WILL REMAIN VIGILANT, AND WILL BE PREPARED TO
CARRY OUT THE PRESIDENT'S ORDERS.  WE WILL SPARE NO
EFFORTTO PROTECT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND SUPPORT OUR
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF'S PLEDGE TO BRING TO JUSTICE THE
TERRORISTS WHO COMMITTED THESE ACTS AND THOSE WHO HARBOR THEM.
4. AS WE HAVE THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY, OUR NATION WILL
OVERCOME THIS TRAGEDY AND EMERGE WITH AN EVEN STRONGER
RESOLVE TO OUR FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES AND VALUES.
MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH EACH OF YOU AND I KNOW
THAT OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH THE VICTIMS, THEIR FAMILIES, AND
OUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.   GOD BLESS AMERICA.
5.  RELEASED BY THE HONORABLE GORDON R. ENGLAND,
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.//
 
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