Bush and three former presidents pray together at the National Cathedral
Three days after hijacked planes struck New York, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the nation still had no full count of its dead. On September 14, 2001, President George W. Bush proclaimed a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance and led a service at Washington National Cathedral, joined by former Presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, and Gerald Ford. Clergy from multiple faiths spoke inside the Neo-Gothic sanctuary as the service was carried live into millions of American homes…
