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September 11, 2021 America celebrates the 20th anniversary of September 11 with solemn ceremonies and commemorations that will take place at each of the three sites where the 19 Al-Qaeda hijackers crashed with full airliners, hitting the cultural, financial heart and politician of the United States and changing the world forever.

At New York's Ground Zero, relatives will read the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed. Six moments of silence will be observed, corresponding to the moments when the two towers of the World Trade Center were hit, and the moments when the Pentagon was attacked and the field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania where Flight 93 crashed. Joe Biden and First Lady Jill will stop at each of these places to "honor and commemorate lost lives".

In a 6-minute and 23-second video message, Biden appealed to "national unity": "In the days following 11 September we saw something very rare: a true sense of national unity. We saw how unity is one of those things that must never be destroyed. Unity is - he said - our greatest strength: it does not mean that we must all believe in the same thing but that we must have respect for one another and for this country ".

To the Republicans who think the new vaccine requirements are an overreach: have at it.

The health of the American people isn't a game - and it's time you stop treating it like one.

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- President Biden (@POTUS) September 11, 2021

Vice President Kamala Harris will join Biden in Pennsylvania. In the United States there will be several commemorations open to the public. The 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York will remember the victims with a minute of silence at 8.46 am, time of the crash on the North Tower of the World Trade Center. In the evening, two rays of light will illuminate the city. At the Pentagon, in North Virginia, the Department of Defense will hold a private ceremony attended by Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, and General Mark Milley, chairman of the assembled General Staff. The 40 victims of United Airlines Flight 93 will be honored during a private meeting at the National Memorial near Shanksville.

In New York despite this being the first commemoration without wars, terrorism alarm remains high. The fear is that the date will continue to inspire terrorist groups of various origins or lone wolves, also in light of the withdrawal from Afghanistan. In the city that seeks normality after Covid, controls are stringent especially in the celebrations area, where in addition to Biden, former President Barack Obama is also expected, who announced to the world in 2011 the death of Osama bin Laden, mind and architect of the 9/11 attacks. For Obama it was a success which, however, was not accompanied by the respect of one of his major electoral promises: the closure of Guantanamo. 20 years after the day that changed the world forever, however, the wars started by George W.Bush in response to the attacks are now all closed: as a legacy only the super prison on the island of Cuba remains. Bush will not be in New York for the celebrations: with his wife Laura he is in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 crashed headed to Washington. 

"On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, I would first like to express the closeness of the Italian people to the families of the victims of that ferocious attack and to all the people of the United States, in the sign of the deep and historical friendship that binds the our two countries. I address a particular thought to my compatriots and people of Italian origin who lost their lives in that painful circumstance, lives broken by a cowardly and blind fanaticism that struck innocent men and women. That tragedy united us in the sign of pain ". Thus the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella in his message. "The memory of the barbaric aggression of twentyyears ago it pushes us with ever greater vigor to protect that common framework of values ​​which responds to the principles of freedom and peaceful coexistence between peoples. The dramatic Afghan affair that followed, up to the recent very serious attack on the Kabul airport, the latest in a series of brutal terrorist attacks that followed one another over the years in many countries, confirms how arduous the road to the affirmation of human rights is " , adds the head of state.adds the head of state.adds the head of state.  

Today at 2 pm the in-depth analysis of Rainews24 will be broadcast on the twentieth anniversary of the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York.

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