There were somber ceremonies in New York City, in Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon on Tuesday as President Trump, along with survivors and families of those killed on this date, remembered Sept. 11, 17 years after the terrorist attack.
Trump, speaking at the Flight 93 National Memorial, said, “A piece of America’s heart is buried in these grounds, but in its place has grown a new resolve to live our lives with the same grace and courage as the heroes of Flight 93.”
He said the field where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed, after passengers overpowered the hijackers who had commandeered it, “is now a monument to American defiance” and “a message to the world America will never ever submit to tyranny.”
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