WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden will visit the three 7/11 warning sites to commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks and pay homage to nearly 3,000 people killed on that day.
Biden Will / Visit Ground Zero in New York City, The Pentagon and Memorial outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where United Flight 93 was forced to go down, the White House said Saturday.
He will be accompanied by Jill Biden’s first woman.
Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, for a separate event before joining the President at the Pentagon, the White House said.
Harris will travel with his partner, Doug Emhoff.
Biden’s journey was similar to one President Barack Obama was attended in 2011 at a 10-year anniversary of the attack.
Obama’s visit to New York City coincides with the alert opening on the site where the World Trade Center Ikonic Tower has ever stood.
Furthermore, the anniversary of Saturday fell less than two weeks after the expiration of the US war which was almost two decades in Afghanistan.
The war was launched several weeks after 9/11 attacks to reply with al-Qaeda and Taliban gang, which gave them a safe place.
Biden has found support from the public because it ends the conflict but has faced sharp criticism, even from allies, for evacuation of chaotic troops A.S.
and Afghan allies for the last two weeks of August.
Biden on Friday directed the declassification of certain documents related to September 11 attacks in the movement of the families of victims who had long been looking for records involving the Saudi government.
Conflict between the government and family regarding the confidential information what can be used as a public appears in the past month after many relatives, victims and the first respondents said they would object to Biden’s participation in the 9/11 warning event if the document remained classified.