VP’s husband, Doug Emhoff, will attend a 9/11 ceremony in Shanksville, Pa.

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff on Monday will take part in a memorial service in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to honor those that died on Flight 93 after it was hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001.

Mr. Emhoff had been scheduled to attend a ceremony in New York City along with his spouse, Vice President Kamala Harris, who will nonetheless be on the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in Manhattan whereas the second gentleman is in rural Pennsylvania.

Flight 93 was considered one of 4 business flights hijacked by Islamic terrorists through the 2001 assaults. Two flights hit the World Trade Center and one other crashed into the Pentagon, although Flight 93 passengers had been credited with conserving the airplane away from a Washington goal — maybe the U.S. Capitol — earlier than it crashed in Shanksville.

Mr. Emhoff’s look on the Flight 93 National Memorial Observance Wreath Laying Ceremony means 4 principal figures from the White House will mark the twenty second anniversary of the assaults in separate locations.

First woman Jill Biden, who’s overcoming a COVID-19 an infection this week, is scheduled to put a wreath on the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial.