While singers from Harmony in Motion, first and second from left and far right, perform the National Anthem, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, third from left, joins U.S. Army Col. Michael Resty, Jr., second from right, in verse to open a town hall meeting with troops at Fort Carson east of Colorado Springs, Colo., on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2003. Standing before 3,000 soldiers Tuesday, Rumsfeld said he could not tell families when their loved ones will be home from Iraq (news - web sites). (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, back, responds to a question from one of the soldiers on hand for a town hall meeting at Fort Carson east of Colorado Springs, Colo., on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2003. Rumsfeld and the defense ministers from the NATO (news - web sites) countries are in Colorado Springs to hold a two-day meeting at a ritzy resort. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, right, poses as an unidentified soldier takes a photograph with his cellular telephone at Fort Carson, east of Colorado Springs, Colo., on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2003. Standing before 3,000 soldiers Tuesday, Rumsfeld said he could not tell families when their loved ones will be home from Iraq (news - web sites). (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)