President Trump will attend the Pentagon rites while staff recast the 25th anniversary as a nation-state counseling session
President Trump will attend the Pentagon ceremony for the 25th anniversary of the 2001 attacks. Staff have added a twenty-six-page repair packet that treats the building as a client. Vice President JD Vance will join former presidents in New York for a parallel process.
Staff wiped the memorial benches outside the Pentagon before dawn on Monday and set the wreaths in a straight line. Then aides from the new Office of Relational Statecraft issued every official a twenty-six-page packet on co-regulation, which they defined as breathing in time with a site of harm.
President Donald Trump will attend the Pentagon ceremony marking twenty-five years since the 2001 attacks, matching earlier reports. The added script asks the executive branch to treat the building as a client in repair, not a backdrop for remarks.
Dr. Marisol Chen, listed as principal affect facilitator, said the country has lived in unprocessed militarized grief. She wants every wreath to follow a spoken inventory of attachment injuries, her term for wars that never got a closing session.
A state cannot hold space for the dead while it ghosts the feelings of its own foreign policy.
Secure attachment, in her usage, means the state stops seeking comfort through force. "We are asking the executive to practice it in public," Chen said.
The packet opens with a body scan facing the limestone, then twenty-six harm acknowledgments from drone policy to alliance consent gaps. Officials must decenter hero narratives, which Chen explained as refusing to make first responders a prop. They then thank the Pentagon as a stakeholder with a nervous system, meaning the building holds stress the way a person does. A timed pause follows. Partner diplomats get a shorter sheet on witnessing without centering the NATO self. First responders still speak. Staff will collect the packets as living documents.
New York will run a parallel process the same morning. Vice President JD Vance is due with former presidents at the World Trade Center, a split Chen called an avoidant dyad, meaning two grief sites that refuse one room. Both venues will share a twenty-six-minute remote breath so the distance does not read as stonewalling.
Grant Holley, deputy undersecretary for ceremonial affect, called the rewrite the only ethical option. "This is grief as justice work," he said. "If we cannot sit with our imperial feelings, we have no business laying flowers."
Critics on the right will hear the language and stop listening, Holley predicted. He said that resistance is itself data about unmetabolized power, meaning force the country never digested.
The wreaths themselves are unchanged. Lt. Col. Dana Ruiz, a Pentagon protocol officer, said the benches still face the sky. "We just added vocabulary," Ruiz said. "The names still get read."
After the last name, staff will recycle the packets into the next after-action feeling memo. Chen called that memo a living document of national repair.
