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Memorial Service, Cannon Green.
Shirley M. Tilghman, President

Today we gather as a community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni of Princeton University, together with residents of the Princeton community, to remember those who are missing or who have been lost in the tragic events in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania. We grieve most especially for those we knew personally -- family members, friends, and colleagues -- and we offer to their loved ones our deepest sympathies.
    We also pay tribute to the extraordinary heroism of the firefighters, police officers, and emergency rescue workers whose human instincts to rush into a fallen building to help

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resulted in their deaths, and to the equally extraordinary heroism of citizens from all walks of life who lost their own lives while helping others to safety and to those who seem to have prevented at least one of the hijacked planes from reaching its intended target.
    We mourn for all the individuals in the airplanes and buildings who were innocent victims of carefully premeditated criminal acts: the secretaries, the bond traders, the custodians, the civil servants, the elevator operators, the office workers, the military personnel, the pilots, the flight attendants, the parents, the children, a cross section of America. We should not forget as well that the World Trade Center was just that: it was home to businesses from 28 countries, and the grief that we feel is felt in those countries as well. May I ask all of you to join with me in a moment of silence in honor and remembrance of all whose lives have been lost to this past week's horrific events?
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