NEW YORK — Vice President Kamala Harris will appear at ground zero in New York Sunday on the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks while President Joe Biden will speak at the Pentagon.
“(Biden and Harris) will travel across the country to honor and remember the victims of the September 11th terror attack,” the White House said in a statement.
Harris and second gentleman Doug Enhoff will participate in the annual ceremony in New York at the National September 11th Memorial in lower Manhattan.
Biden will deliver remarks and lay a wreath at the site where terrorists crashed a plane into the Pentagon.
First lady Jill Biden will head to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to attend a ceremony at the Flight 93 Memorial, which marks the site where a hijacked plane crashed after passengers fought back against the terrorists.
The commemorations are a bit more subdued that last year’s 20th anniversary commemorations.
Biden spoke that day at all three attack sites including ground zero, where he was joined by former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
Former President George W. Bush, who was in office when the attacks took place and famously rallied the nation from ground zero in the days afterward, spoke at Shanksville.
Former President Donald Trump skipped the official commemorations but did visit New York City firefighters.
Nearly 3,000 Americans were killed when a group of mostly Saudi terrorists simultaneously hijacked four planes on Sept. 11, 2001. The terrorists deliberately crashed two of the planes into the World Trade Center and a third into the Pentagon.
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