Americans are reflecting and honoring the legacy of Sept. 11, 2001, gathering Monday in communities across the United States, to observe the 22nd anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil.
With no clean finish to COVID, I'm searching for a bookend to this period of my life. As I review other befores and afters, I keep returning to the one date I can't forget: Sept. 11, 2001.
Americans paused on Monday to remember the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, 22 years after Islamist hijackers seized control of jetliners and crashed them into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon. President Joe Biden was flying to Alaska to conclude a five-day trip to India and Vietnam, and was to deliver remarks in a solemn ceremony in Anchorage. Biden's decision to hold the event in Alaska, instead of Washington or New York, was a departure from what has been presidential custom.