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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 12 sepTember 2017
US marks 9/11 anniversary with resolve, tears and hope

By JENNIFER PELTZ “Maybe then we can put
KAREN MATTHEWS away our disagreements
Associated Press and become one country
NEW YORK (AP) — Ameri- again,” she said.
cans commemorated Trump, a native New York-
9/11 on Monday with tear- er observing the anniver-
streaked tributes, a presi- sary for the first time as the
dential warning to terrorists country’s leader, assured
and appeals from victims’ victims’ families that “our
relatives for unity and hope entire nation grieves with
16 years after the deadliest you” and issued stern words
terrorist attack on U.S. soil. to extremists.
Looking out at the solemn “America cannot be in-
crowd at ground zero, timidated, and those who
Debra Epps said she views try will join a long list of
every day as time to do vanquished enemies who
something to ensure that dared test our mettle,” the
her brother, Christopher Republican president said
Epps, and thousands of as he spoke at the Pen-
others didn’t die in vain. tagon after observing a
“What I can say today is moment of silence at the
that I don’t live my life in White House.
complacency,” she said. “I Family members and dignitaries bow their heads after laying a wreath at The Wall of Names When America is united,
stand in solidarity that this during the service of remembrance tribute to the passengers and crew of United Flight 93 at the “no force on earth can
world will make a change Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. break us apart,” he said.
for the better.” (AP Photo/Fred Vuich) At the Flight 93 National
Thousands of family mem- projects. Volunteer Hillary a field near Shanksville the attacks. Memorial, Pence said the
bers, survivors, rescuers and O’Neill, 16, had her own on Sept. 11, 2001, hurling “Our country came to- passengers who revolted
others gathered for the connection to 9/11: It’s her America into a new con- gether that day. And it did against hijackers might well
hourslong reading of vic- birthdate. sciousness of the threat of not matter what color you have saved his own life.
tims’ names at the World “I always feel a sense of global terrorism. were or where you were The Republican vice presi-
Trade Center, while Presi- responsibility to give back Reflecting on a tragedy from,” said a tearful Mag- dent was a member of
dent Donald Trump spoke on the day,” O’Neill, of Nor- that still feels immediate aly Lemagne, who lost her Congress on 9/11, and the
at the Pentagon and Vice walk, Connecticut, said as to them, victims’ relatives brother, Port Authority of Capitol was a possible tar-
President Mike Pence ad- she packed up meals in thanked first responders New York and New Jersey get of the terrorist piloting
dressed an observance New York City for needy lo- and the military, worried for police officer David Le- Flight 93.
at the Flight 93 National cal people and hurricane people affected by Hurri- magne. Instead, it crashed near
Memorial near Shanksville, victims in Texas and Florida. cane Irma as it continued She implored people to Shanksville after the pas-
Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people were its destructive path as a “stop for a moment and sengers took action. Thir-
Elsewhere, thousands of killed when planes hijacked tropical storm and pleaded remember all the people ty-three passengers and
Americans marked the by terrorists hit the trade for a return to the sense of who gave their lives that seven crew members were
anniversary with service center, the Pentagon and cohesiveness that followed day. killed. q

President Trump on 9/11: ‘America cannot be intimidated’

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and hands clasped, for a there is no dark corner be-
Associated Press moment of silence at the yond our reach, no sanctu-
WASHINGTON (AP) — In White House to mark the ary beyond our grasp, and
the 16 years since the Sept. instant that a hijacked air- nowhere to hide anywhere
11 terror attacks, Donald plane had slammed into on this very large Earth.”
Trump has evolved from a the World Trade Center. Trump’s initial response in
celebrity developer whose Later, at the Pentagon, the hours after terror at-
first public thoughts were where another plane had tacks was more restrained.
about Manhattan’s sud- crashed, he promised He had flirted with a presi-
denly altered skyline to the American resolve.” dential run before, but he
combative commander in ’’The terrorists who at- had yet to embrace some
chief who warned “savage tacked us thought they of the hardline ideas that
killers” on Monday “there is could incite fear and weak- later emerged in his cam-
no dark corner beyond our en our spirit,” Trump said. paign, nor had he yet had
reach.” “But America cannot be his rebirth as a national ce-
Trump was in his Fifth Av- President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump stand for a intimidated, and those lebrity thanks to “The Ap-
enue penthouse that clear moment of silence during a ceremony to mark the anniversary who try will join a long list of prentice.”
fall day in 2001, four miles of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, at the vanquished enemies who Trump vowed that his
from the World Trade Cen- Pentagon. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) dared test our mettle.” home city’s spirit would
ter and, seemingly, in a “American forces are re- not be broken. Nor his. He
previous life from the one on his home town, a sharp On Monday, his first 9/11 lentlessly pursuing and de- could not resist noting that
he now leads. contrast to his more recent anniversary as president, stroying the enemies of all with the destruction of the
When the towers fell, he incendiary rhetoric about Trump carried out a sadly civilized people,” he de- 110-story twin towers, his
spoke with measured words terrorists and his unproven familiar ritual for U.S. lead- clared. building at 40 Wall St. now
about the attackers and claims about celebrating ers. “We are making plain to stood above all others in
about the wounds inflicted Muslims. He stood, head bowed these savage killers that Lower Manhattan.q