The United States on Sunday marked the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that left nearly 3,000 dead and launched the United States into the decades-long war in Afghanistan.
President Joe Biden on Sunday morning laid a wreath at the Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia.
“America itself changed that day,” Biden told the crowd near the building, which houses the Department of Defense and U.S. intelligence agencies. “But what we will not change, and never will, is the character of this nation that the terrorist thought they could wound.”
“We regain the light by reaching out to one another, and finding something all too rare: a true sense of national unity,” Biden added, although it came just over a week after he denigrated tens of millions of Trump supporters in a polarizing speech. “To me, that’s the greatest lesson of September 11th.”…