Following their first presidential debate, former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris put politics aside to both travel to New York City to mark the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Wednesday marked the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when terrorist groups launched coordinated attacks against the United States, hijacking and crashing commercial airliners at the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, DC, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, leaving nearly 3,000 people dead and making them the deadliest terrorist attacks in U.S. history.
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Names inscribed on the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Trump and Harris took part in their first presidential debate on Tuesday night before departing for New York City.
First, President Trump is scheduled to visit the former World Trade Center site, also known as Ground Zero, where he will attend a 9/11 memorial and deliver a short speech.
President Trump will next visit the New York Fire Department's Engine 4, Tower Ladder 15.
Afterwards, he plans to head to the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville.
Meanwhile, President Biden and Ms Harris are also scheduled to visit the 9/11 Memorial for a remembrance ceremony.
Biden and Harris will then travel to Shanksville to attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the Flight 93 memorial.
Biden and Harris will then attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
The Twin Towers in 1994. (Stefan Schultz/Photo Alliance via Getty Images)
On September 11, 2001, more than 400 emergency responders, including 23 New York City police officers, 37 Port Authority employees, and 343 New York City firefighters, lost their lives.
All 40 passengers and crew on board Flight 93 lost their lives, but they are believed to have fought back against the terrorists who hijacked the plane and prevented a larger attack. The plane crashed at Shanksville Airfield, just a 20-minute flight from the US Capitol.
The “Tower of Voices,” part of the Flight 93 National Memorial, May 26, 2021, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
On August 31, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration withdrew all U.S. military assets from Afghanistan, where the U.S. had been stationed for nearly 20 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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Amid the withdrawal, the Taliban took control of Afghanistan and formally announced the formation of a new government. Their pre-9/11 government was the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, but after attacks, U.S.-led forces removed the militants.
The 9/11 attacks were planned by Al Qaeda, who were protected by the Taliban.
