Click Here to Read: What We Affirm: Leon Wieseltier’s Remarks at ‘9/11: An Evening of Remembrance and Reflection’ from the New Republic. in partnership with the Kennedy Center and the Pentagon, commemorated the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. The event (which can be viewed in its entirety here) was
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faciliated by Christiane Amanpour, and was structured as a memorial service with brief addresses from leading policymakers, cultural figures, first-responders, and survivors of 9/11. It included moving performances by Raul Esparza, Denyce Graves, Emmylou Harris, Wynton Marsalis, Duawne Starling, and the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Mauceri. Actress Melissa Leo read verse by Robert Frost and Mark Strand. And Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, and Condoleezza Rice captured the historical and political significance and cultural impact of September 11 through the reading of newspaper articles from September 12, 2001.