Americans paused this Monday to remember the attacks of September 11, 2001, 22 years after Islamic extremists took control of planes and flew them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon.
President Joe Biden was traveling to Alaska at the end of a five-day trip to India and Vietnam and was expected to deliver a speech at a ceremony in Anchorage.
Biden’s decision to hold the event in Alaska, rather than Washington or New York, departed from what has been presidential custom.
Vice President Kamala Harris and other officials joined families of victims of the attacks at the September 11 Memorial, which occupies the site of the collapsed buildings to mark the day.
Pentagon officials, in turn, held the traditional event at the headquarters of the US Department of Defense.
The attacks killed more than 3,000 people and prompted then-President George W. Bush to launch a “global war on terrorism” that included a military strike on Afghanistan to find al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Bin Laden eluded capture until he was killed in a U.S. raid on his compound in Pakistan in 2011, ordered by then-President Barack Obama.
The September 11 attacks were the worst attack on North American soil since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 1941, where 2,400 people were killed.
Source: Terra
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