Biden visits all three attack sites on 20th anniversary of 9/11

SHANKSVILLE, Pennsylvania: President Joe Biden commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Sep 11 attacks on the United States on Saturday with visits to each of the sites where hijacked planes crashed in 2001, honoring the victims of the devastating assault.

The Bidens then flew to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, before heading back to the Washington area to visit the Pentagon. In New York City, on a clear, beautiful day similar to the weather 20 years ago, the New York Police Department pipes and drums band played"Hard Times Come Again No More" a US folk song from the 1850s. Bruce Springsteen, playing an acoustic guitar, sang"I'll See You in My Dreams".

Biden told reporters the passengers and crew who stormed the cockpit had stepped up in a crisis."That's genuine heroism," he said. He praised a speech given in Shanksville earlier in the day by former President George W Bush, the Republican who was in office during the Sep 11 attacks. Biden's withdrawal of US troops in August, months after a deadline set by his Republican predecessor Trump, and the resulting rapid fall of the country to the Taliban has drawn criticism from members of both political parties.

US presidents often travel to one of the three sites on the 9/11 anniversary but it is unusual to go to all three on the same day.

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