President Barack Obama on Sunday paid tribute to the relatives and friends of the victims of the 9/11 attacks.
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He urged Americans on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to embrace the nation’s diversity and not to allow “terrorists” to divide the country.”Extremist organisations like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group (Daesh) “know that they will never be able to defeat a nation as great and as strong as America”, Obama said at a memorial service at the Pentagon, one of the sites attacked on September 11, 2001″. “In your grief and grace”, Obama said to the crowd gathered outside the Pentagon, “you have reminded us that, together, there’s nothing we Americans can not overcome”.
Afterwards, Mr Obama arrived at the Pentagon, where he laid a large wreath at the beginning of a memorial service. “We remember, and we will never forget, the almost 3,000 attractive lives taken from us so cruelly – including 184 men, women and children here, the youngest just three years old. And how do we keep their spirit alive in our own hearts?” the president said. We come together in prayer and in gratitude for the strength that has fortified us across these 15 years.
More than 340 firefighters and 60 police were killed on the that sunny Tuesday morning in 2001, in the worst attack on USA soil since Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941.
“Bound by a creed as old as our founder …”
This weekend, we honor their memory once more.
“We know that our diversity, our patchwork heritage, is not a weakness”.
“So instead they try to terrorise, in the hopes that they can stoke enough fear that we turn on each other”, Obama said. We’ve strengthened our homeland security. Obama noted that event as he spoke about how the nation has responded since 9/11 by delivering “justice” to bin Laden, by strengthening homeland security and by preventing attacks. We have saved lives.
“We resolve to continue doing everything in our power to protect this country that we love”, he said, facing the benches that are a hallmark of the Pentagon Memorial. “How we conduct ourselves as individuals and as a nation, we have he opportunity each and every day to live up to the sacrifice of those heroes that we lost”.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump released a statement on Facebook page and offered his condolences toy he victims. And almost 3,000 innocent lives were lost. “We mourn for all the children who had to grow up without a mom or dad, and for all the parents who have had to struggle on without their children”, he wrote.
“We’re here today in that spirit to honor those who lost their lives on 9/11, to maintain our commitment to never forget, and to demonstrate our loyalty tohigh ideals”, Dunford said.
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Across our country today, Americans are coming together in service and remembrance. It is also a day of resolve. Clinton left the ceremony early when she became overwhelmed by the heat, her campaign said but later reported she is being treated for pneumonia. She visited the Ground Zero memorial to pay her respects and observe the annual moment of silence but soon fell ill. “She is now re-hydrated and recovering nicely”, her physician Lisa Bardack said.
