today. the terrorists with their ideology will never defeat the idea of america. it is not possible. the idea is too big, it s too great, it touches too many people s hearts and affects too many people s character. that is our strength. it is our the idea of america that burns inside of us and gives so many people in america the willingness to stand up and die for that idea. and i m absolutely encouraged by the fact that we have those kind of people in america, and we will go forward, and we will meet the threats that america s going to be challenged by. and america will continue to stand for what it is, and america will continue to survive. bill: thank you, general, for that. america s sacrifice, that is what it has been for 20 years. jen griffin standing by at the pentagon. jeff jen, good morning to you there. we ve been watching and
confronted by a great evil. they prayed. they voted on a course of action, if then they struck and then they struck. though in the process they lost their lives, there is no question that they won the first battle in this current war of terrorism. 35 minutes, 9:28 to 10:03 a.m., from the initial terrorist attack on flight 93 until the moment the plane came down on our sacred ground, a lifetime, a moment. forever. yesterday. here on the ground first responders, aware of what was taking place in new york, at the pentagon, and in the midst of fear and uncertainty, instinctively reacted to the
and that morning more than 6,000 people were injured in the attack on our country. 2,606 died in the world trade center. 125 at the pentagon. and 246 innocent people were murdered on the four hijacked planes, 40 of which were on flight 93 brought down here in a field just outside of shanksville, pennsylvania. and our heroes fought to overcome the evil brought to our shores that morning. to date, an additional 2,000 first responders that took part in the immediate rescue and continued recovery efforts have have died from related illnesses. and with every month, we continue to lose more. if the ripple effect of september 11th is unfathomable. there are still many questions to be answered about the day,
it at that today. we know that he is standing side by side with some other presidents today. he already was with president obama and clinton. he is expected to cross paths with president bush when he is in pennsylvania. biden s own 9/11 story is unique, but it s very joe biden. he was on board an amtrak train making his daily commute from wilmington, delaware to the white house when he go the he got a call from his wife and informed him what happened and tried to get into the capitol shortly after arriving at union station and looking at the black smoke at the pentagon over the potomac river and security officers wouldn t let him and he later went on tv congress for congress to come back into session and there were security issues late that morning as we all remember and he wrote in his book about
president. he s going to make three tops today, appropriately enough, new york, shanksville and the pentagon. as we get ready for that time here in new york, let s drop in and hear just a few more names. and just for the record, this started at 8:45. it s now 10:26 east coast time. they ve been reading names for nearly an hour and 45 minutes, and it continues now. [reading of names] amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like