NEW YORK, Sept 11 (Askume) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will on Wednesday visit three sites where a hijacked plane crashed in 2001 to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, killing nearly 3,000 people.
Biden and Harris will first visit the site where the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City were shot down.
Harris, the incumbent Democratic presidential nominee, was scheduled to face off against her Republican rival in Philadelphia on Tuesday night
There will be no comment at the scene and the names of the deceased will be read out by relatives.
Trump said he would also attend the awards ceremony in New York City with fellow candidate J.D. Vance.
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg would also attend, a source familiar with the planning said.
Biden and Harris will then travel to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where passengers on United Flight 93 overpowered the hijackers and the plane crashed into a field, preventing another target from being hit. They will then return to the Washington area to visit the Pentagon Memorial.
“We can only imagine the heartbreak and pain that the families and survivors of 9/11 have felt every day for the last 23 years,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One on Tuesday.
“We will continue to do everything possible to ensure that an attack like this never happens again,” he said.
Trump, who also plans to visit the Pennsylvania Memorial, told Fox News on Wednesday: “This is a very sad, terrible day. Nothing like this has ever happened before.”
Biden issued a proclamation honoring those killed in the attack and the millions of Americans who later volunteered for military service.
“We owe a debt of gratitude to these patriots of the 9/11 generation that we can never fully repay,” Biden said, citing deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq and other war zones, as well as the capture of Sept. 11 mastermind Osa Albaz and the killing of bin Laden and his associates.
On Tuesday, US Congressional leadersThe 13 military personnel killed in a suicide bombing at Kabul airport on August 26, 2021, during the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan were posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
