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The US commemorates the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

2024-09-11 22:10:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

The US commemorates the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

In the United States, about 3,000 victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 are being commemorated on Tuesday.

This 23rd anniversary is marked while the country is in the presidential campaign.

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump stood side by side at the ceremony held at the World Trade Center in New York.

In 2008, on Memorial Day for the victims of the hijacked airliner attacks, then-Senators and presidential campaign rivals John McCain and Barack Obama made a conspicuous effort to put politics aside.

Together they visited the site where the twin towers of the World Trade Center once stood, laying flowers in honor of the victims.

Regardless of the campaign calendar, organizers of 9/11 ceremonies have long tried to focus on the victims.

For years, politicians have been mere observers at these ceremonies, where relatives of the victims read aloud the names of those who lost their lives.

"You're around people who feel sad, proud at the same time — this day is about that, it's not political," said Melissa Tarasiewicz, who lost her father, Allan Tarasiewicz, a New York City firefighter, on Sept. 11. .

In addition to New York, ceremonies were also held in Pennsylvania and the Pentagon, the three places where the planes taken hostage by Al-Qaeda operatives crashed.

US officials have concluded that the plane that crashed near the Shanksville, Pennsylvania rolling stock on September 11, 2001, was headed for Washington. It crashed after crew members and passengers clashed with the hijackers in an attempt to take control of the plane.

The terrorist attack also changed American foreign policy, homeland security practices, and the mindset of many Americans who had not previously felt insecure about attacks by foreign extremists.

The effects rippled around the world and across generations as the US responded by leading the global war on terrorism./ Voa





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