As the world completes 20 years of the worst attack on United States on September 9, 2001, that killed 2,977 Americans, President Joe Biden has urged unity as his country prepares to remember the victims.
In a video released on the eve of the 20th anniversary, he said, “We honour all those who risked and gave their lives in the minutes, hours, months and years afterwards. No matter how much time has passed, these commemorations bring everything painfully back as if you just got the news a few seconds ago.” “We learned that unity is the one thing that must never break,” he added.
The terror attack has shaped most consequential domestic and foreign policy decisions made by American leadership over the past 2 decades. The anniversary comes a little more than 2 weeks after a suicide bomber in Kabul killed 13 US service members as as the military concluded its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, India paid tribute at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York ahead of the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. India’s Permanent Representative to United Nations TS Tirumurti referred to it as a “moving experience.”
In remembrance of the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, the NCTC museum features artifacts recovered from the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the crash site near Shanksville, Pa. Read more: https://t.co/4gIIMyq6rS pic.twitter.com/1X8ec7KTIs
— Office of the DNI (@ODNIgov) September 9, 2021
