For the first time in presidential history, Biden will be skipping the 9/11 ceremonies traditionally held in New York City, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon. Instead, Biden will briefly address the worst terror attack in U.S. history at an Alaskan military base before taking off for a world leader summit in New Delhi.
Talk about priorities, right?
From Headline USA:
Biden will stop in Alaska for the 9/11 observance at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson in Anchorage on his way back to Washington after he attends a summit in New Delhi with other world leaders and visits Vietnam on Sept. 10.
Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, will participate in the annual commemoration at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in lower Manhattan.
First lady Jill Biden will lay a wreath at the 9/11 memorial at the Pentagon.
Terrorists hijacked commercial airplanes on Sept. 11, 2001, and flew them into the Twin Towers in New York’s financial district and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
A fourth plane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers fought back.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks. Biden was a U.S. senator at the time.
The White House did not announce which official will participate in the Pennsylvania observance.
This feels like such a half-hearted way to honor the victims of this horrible day in American history.
It seems like Biden and his administration almost feel obligated to carry out this tradition, rather than honored.
