Thursday, October 24

Biden to mark 9/11 in Alaska as an alternative of on the conventional NYC, Virginia or Pennsylvania occasions

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will observe subsequent month’s twenty second anniversary of the worst terrorist assault on U.S. soil at an Alaska army base with service members and their households, the White House introduced.

It would be the first time {that a} president has not attended any of the observances which were held yearly in New York City, Pennsylvania and Virginia, simply outdoors Washington, in keeping with an Associated Press assessment of media protection of those occasions.

Biden will cease in Alaska for the 9/11 observance at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage on his approach again to Washington after he attends a summit in New Delhi with different world leaders and visits Vietnam on Sept. 10.



Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, will take part within the annual commemoration on the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in decrease Manhattan.

First woman Jill Biden will lay a wreath on the 9/11 memorial on the Pentagon.

Terrorists hijacked industrial airplanes on Sept. 11, 2001, and flew them into the Twin Towers in New York‘s monetary district and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth airplane crashed in a area in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers fought again.

Nearly 3,000 individuals have been killed within the assaults. Biden was a U.S. senator on the time.

The White House didn’t announce which official will take part within the Pennsylvania observance.

Associated Press News Researcher Jennifer Farrar in New York contributed to this report.

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