NEW YORK: President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump made a rare joint appearance on Wednesday at the New York City site that marks the September 11 plane attacks in 2001 that killed nearly 3,000 people.
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump, Republican US vice presidential nominee Senator JD Vance, US President Joe Biden and former Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg, and Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris gesture during a ceremony marking the 23rd anniversary of the Sep 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in the Manhattan borough of New York City, US, Sep 11, 2024.
The annual rite marks the suicide attacks by al-Qaeda militants who flew two planes into the World Trade Center and another into the Pentagon. A fourth plane went down in a Pennsylvania field after passengers stormed the cockpit. A bagpipe and drum processional was accompanied by New York City's fire and police departments and Port Authority honor guards. The national anthem was performed and moments of silence were held at the times each target was struck.After New York, Biden and Harris flew to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where passengers on United Flight 93 overcame the hijackers and the plane crashed in a field, preventing another target from being hit.
The president and vice president spoke with local fire officials at the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department, pausing for a moment to observe another memorial, erected on an adjacent hill where some 40 flags waved in the wind.A woman sings the U.S. national anthem as people attend a ceremony marking the 23rd anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., September 11, 2024. REUTERS/Kent J.
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