US President Joe Biden called on his citizens to unite, which he considered “our greatest power”, in a recorded message published at dawn on Saturday, on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
20 years after September 11, 2001, we commemorate the 2,977 lives we lost and honor those who risked and gave their lives. As we saw in the days that followed, unity is our greatest strength. It’s what makes us who we are — and we can’t forget that. pic.twitter.com/WysK8m3LAb
— President Biden (@POTUS) September 10, 2021
In his White House message, just over six minutes long, the president said: “This is for me the central lesson of 9/11. That is when we are the most Vulnerable (…) Unity is our greatest strength.”
Biden and his wife will visit, on Saturday, 3 sites that have become a symbol of the attacks that took place 20 years ago. They will go to New York, where the World Trade Center towers were destroyed, to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where a plane hijacked by four gunmen crashed, and to Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, where the US Department of Defense came under attack. The president, under fire for managing the withdrawal from Afghanistan and struggling to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, is expected to speak publicly at events to commemorate 9/11.
(Biden wanted to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the attacks, by withdrawing US forces in an orderly form from Afghanistan, and the forces had been sent there after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
However, the war in Afghanistan ended amid a state of affairs From chaos, with rapid progress made by the Taliban and the death of 13 US soldiers in an attack on Kabul during the US withdrawal from the country.
