political career has been shaped by these attacks on september 11 20 years ago, and today he is about to pay the final tribute on this long day of remembrance as he wanted to honor the lives and sacrifices made by so many this day 20 years ago. yes, he is certainly the consoler in chief on this day, arlette saenz, visiting lower manhattan, shanksville, pennsylvania and now pentagon there just outside of washington, d.c. in northern virginia. we should see the president and first lady and azs arlette was mentioning, general austin and general milley should be there. we ll keep an eye on that camera at the pentagon and bring you coverage of that president s visit for the wreath ceremony in a few minutes.
right now. it was very emotional, especially the last three miles. i started at the pentagon on august 1st. walked to shanksville, pennsylvania, and then ended up here today walking through the tunnel with my family. i was thinking when i was going through the tunnel, i was thinking my brother, the day he was born. i m a lot older than him. he s the youngest of seven kids and he was a little miracle. so i was 14 years younger than him. and then my father died a year and a half later, my mom died and he questioned to me, he said, frank, why was i even born? why am i here? i said, steven, don t say that. mommy and daddy love you so much. they brought you into this world and i don t know why they died, but god put you here for a reason and one day you ll do something very special andresil. i m thinking of these things, a
bruce springsteen putting their loss into song. when i see you laugh again i ll see you in my dreams. president biden and the first lady attending the memorial. in shanksville, pennsylvania the first lady laid a wreath in memory of the people who overpowered, the heroes who overpowered the hijackers and spared the intended target. they defended ending the war in afghanistan and that was born from the attacks. if you had told anybody we were going to spend 3 million bucks a day for 20 years to try to unite the country after we got bin laden, after al qaeda
can come here and learn more about the sacrifices that were made and arguably, the lives that were saved because of what happened on flight 93. now, president biden also paid a visit here. he and the first lady, they laid a wreath in tribute to those lost, but the only president, current or former, we heard from today was george w. bush in his remarks are the people talking about for the next few days. he was poetically blunt, shall we say. all right, paula read, thank you. arlette saenz from the white house. reporter: president biden just left shanksville, pennsylvania, and now making his way to his final stop on this september 11th anniversary where he will visit the pentagon in arlington, virginia, and lay a wreath there. the president began his day at ground zero at the 9/11 memorial in new york city where he was accompanied by the former
we go to the pentagon. you said, jim, a while ago you went to shanksville, and that s becoming, as kamala harris said today and you said, sacred ground. you need to go visit shanksville as if you would go to valley forge in pennsylvania or gettysburg where lincoln gave the gettysburg address. the history of 9/11 is still with us even for young people who weren t born back then. doug, i just think about, you know, with regard to shanksville, if that plane had been successful in hitting the capitol just how devastating that would have been to the united states. there s just no question about it, how heroic those actions were on that day, and i think you re absolutely right in terms of how we reflected on 9/11 in thinking about not just the people in shanksville but obviously our heroes at ground zero, and our heroes who responded to what was a