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U.S. President Joe Biden will commemorate the 20th anniversary of September 11 on Saturday by visiting all three U.S. locations for al-Qaeda’s actions.
Biden called on Americans to remain silent for a while since 8.46am, when the first hijacked plane landed at the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York.
The attack “is one of the worst crimes in the history of our country”, he said on Friday, “which has opened a hole in our hearts.”
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the Twin Towers in New York in 2001, the Pentagon in Virginia and the fourth aircraft landed in Pennsylvania after boarding aircraft.
Former leaders George W Bush, the leader at the time of the attacks, Barack Obama and Donald Trump are also expected to hold a memorial service.
Families of the victims at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum near the collapsed buildings were required to read the names of their deceased loved ones in ritual from 8.30am, which would have six minutes of silence.
Events planned across the country include the annual “Flag Rates” memorial on Mount Malibu where 2,977 US flags will fly in memory of any lives lost in the catastrophe. Relatives of the affected parties should gather in all three places.
More than 2,400 U.S. civilians were killed in the ensuing war, which was carried out by al-Qaeda jihadis and organized off Afghanistan, and 20,000 were wounded. Giving see also 13 since the US left Afghanistan last month. Eighteen U.S. fighters commit suicide every day, Biden said last month.
Karestan Koenen, a Harvard psychiatry professor who saw the planes land at the World Trade Center and offered a sympathetic note to the so-called Ground Zero, said the incident left the nation.
“It’s not closed,” he said. Mr Koenen referred to the “inconsistent need” to remember the threats, which led him to continue studying the crisis affecting fighters and civilians.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday described this year’s commemoration as a “memorial” especially for veterans, indicating that Kabul fell in the Taliban last month after the US left. Afghanistan.
Washington ousted the Taliban following the 2001 Afghan invasion of the US. On Saturday, the same Islamic militant group allied with al-Qaeda set up a new government.
Biden tried to put in place a reminder this year based on the fact that the United States is pulling the strings in response to the threats – which has made America an important part of the world in the last 20 years.
“As we open the page on foreign trade that has dominated our country for the past two decades, we need to learn from our mistakes,” Biden said last month, the end of US action from Afghanistan that ended a long-running American war.
Biden has said the departure marks the end of a major war that seeks to reform other countries, and a new beginning that looks at competing with China and other domestic problems.
Richard Fontaine, head of the bipartisan think-tank Center for New American Security, says the US pulled out a “major victory” in response to Sept. 11, in addition to curbing further protests in the country. But he also spoke of “very serious” crimes, including the brutality of detainees and the Iraq war.
“It all came 102 minutes later but… We remember the horrors, turmoil, chaos and horrors of the day,” said Garrett Graff, a historian of the September 11 attack.
“What we did that day, and we decided to let go of that fear, it is important that we understand everything that the US did wrong,” he said, referring to Washington’s global war on terrorism that followed, which included military intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq. places to go to the CIA in the black and torture areas, as well as the Guantánamo Bay prison, all of which hurt the US international standing and the idea of a home invasion.
Biden has promised to announce further details of the FBI investigation into the next six months, following the wishes of their relatives who want Saudi Arabia’s status to be revealed.
Speaking on video to commemorate the occasion, Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense, a former soldier from Afghanistan and Iraq, paid tribute to the lost lives, and called on US democracy and law to guide them.
“America should lead,” he said.