UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, President Joe Biden will pay his respects to the almost 3,000 Americans who perished that day at all three 9/11 memorial sites.
According to the White House, Biden will visit ground zero in New York City, the Pentagon, and the memorial outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where United Flight 93 was shot down. Jill Biden, the first lady, will accompany him.
According to the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris will drive to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, for a separate event before joining the president at the Pentagon. Harris will travel with her husband, Doug Emhoff, for the trip.
Biden's agenda for the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in 2011 was identical to that of President Barack Obama. Obama's visit to New York City coincided with the dedication of a memorial at the site of the World Trade Center towers.
The anniversary comes just over two weeks after the United States declared victory in Afghanistan following a nearly two-decade conflict. In retaliation for the Taliban's provision of safe haven to al-Qaida plotters, the combat began weeks after the 9/11 attacks.
Biden enjoys widespread public support for ending the conflict, but he has come under fire, particularly from allies, for the hasty evacuation of US soldiers and allied Afghans in the last two weeks of August.
Biden ordered the declassification of key documents connected to the Sept. 11 attacks on Friday, in a gesture to the relatives of the victims who have long wanted the material in the hopes of linking the attacks to the Saudi government.
Many relatives, survivors, and first responders warned that if the files remained classified, they would boycott Biden's participation in 9/11 memorial events, bringing the government-family feud into the open last month.
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