The White Home introduced this week that President Biden will observe the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist assaults in Alaska, not any of the three assault websites.
On Monday, Sept. 11, Biden will journey to a army base in Alaska the place he’ll mark the twenty second anniversary of the assaults in a memorial ceremony with members of the army and their households, White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated in a press release Monday.
The White Home defined that the president will journey to Alaska to mark the somber event after his Sept. 10 journey to Hanoi, Vietnam, the place he’ll meet with Vietnamese Basic Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and different leaders to debate technological innovation and local weather change in an effort to bolster the 2 nations’ relationship.
Concurrently, whereas Biden participates in 9/11 ceremonies in Alaska, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will mark the event in a commemoration ceremony on the Nationwide September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York Metropolis, in keeping with Jean-Pierre. And First Girl Jill Biden will lay a wreath on the Nationwide 9/11 Pentagon Memorial in Arlington, Virginia.
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President Biden will spend Sept. 11 this 12 months in Alaska in a departure from custom. (Drew Angerer/Getty Photos)
Biden’s plans for Sept. 11 signify the primary time for the reason that assaults {that a} president has opted in opposition to observing the event at both the White Home or any of the three assault websites.
Former President Barack Obama participated in a second of silence on the White Home garden earlier than touring to Maryland’s Fort Meade in 2015, The Related Press reported. In 2005, former President George W. Bush equally participated in a ceremony on the White Home garden.
On each different 9/11 anniversary, presidents have traveled to no less than one of many three assault websites in New York Metropolis, northern Virginia and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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Sept. 11 additionally represents the date in 2021 that Biden introduced he would order the Division of Protection to withdraw all remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan by.
Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal in the end led to catastrophe in August 2021 after a terrorist assault killed 13 American service members defending the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport the place the U.S. and allies performed a chaotic evacuation effort.
