The former US President Barack Obama has praised the 9/11 heroes – and years since – in a message to mark a 20-year anniversary of terror attacks.
“One thing that becomes clear on 9/11 – and has been clear since – is that America has always been home for heroes who ran towards the danger of doing what was right,” Obama said, who was the US president for 2017.
He said a lasting picture For him and his wife Michelle on that day was not debris and destruction but people.
He chose firefighters who ran up the stairs when others ran, passengers who stormed the cockpit of planes and their volunteers who advanced throughout the country in the following days.
“Over the past 20 years, we have seen the same courage and not selfish and again,” Obama said.
“We saw it a decade ago when, after years of perseverance, our military brought justice for Osama bin Laden.
And we see it today – in doctors and nurses, tired bones, doing what they can to save lives; agreement, some at They haven’t even born 20 years ago, taking risks to save Americans and help refugees find a better life; the first respondent struggled against campfires and a waters to bring family to a safe place.
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