Trump at Pentagon as Nation Marks 9/11
Trump at Pentagon as Nation Marks 9/11
The News
President Trump is commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon on Friday morning, while Vice President JD Vance joins the living former presidents at Ground Zero in New York, according to The Hill and the Associated Press.
The Pentagon observance was scheduled for 9 a.m. ET, with the first lady and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attending, the Washington Examiner and The Hill reported.
In New York, the ceremony began around 8:30 a.m. and included the annual reading of the names of the 2,983 people killed in the 2001 attacks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, per The National Desk and The Center Square.
Ceremonies are being held across the country, from the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to statewide remembrances in Massachusetts and Florida.
Timeline
Four hijacked jets are used to attack the United States, bringing down the World Trade Center towers, striking the Pentagon and crashing in Pennsylvania, The Hill reported.
American Airlines Flight 77, hijacked, crashes into the side of the Pentagon, according to the Washington Examiner.
New Yorkers, Americans from across the country and visitors from around the world come to the World Trade Center memorial site ahead of the anniversary, The Center Square reported.
The Ground Zero ceremony begins, with Vance, Zohran Mamdani and the living former presidents in attendance, per the Washington Examiner.
Trump takes part in the Pentagon's 25th anniversary observance ceremony.
The Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville holds its own observance ceremony, PBS NewsHour reported.
Reactions
Coverage across the political spectrum converged on the same story Friday morning: outlets from the Associated Press and PBS NewsHour to the Washington Examiner and The Gateway Pundit carried live feeds of the Pentagon and Ground Zero ceremonies rather than competing storylines.
In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis joined a remembrance ceremony in Green Cove Springs marking 25 years since the attacks, News4Jax reported.
Massachusetts, which lost residents on the hijacked flights that left Boston, planned a full day of commemoration, according to Boston.com.
What's Next
PBS NewsHour reported that Friday's milestone anniversary brings a full slate of memorial rituals — wreath-layings, flag-flyings, moments of silence, vigils and readings of victims' names — running through the day.
Remembrance events continue in New York and in communities around the country into Friday evening, The Center Square and IBTimes reported.
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The Ground Zero name reading is the anniversary's centerpiece, and its count — 2,983 — folds in the six people killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing alongside those who died in 2001.
The split-screen of the day is itself notable: a sitting president at the Pentagon, a vice president standing with his predecessors' bosses in Manhattan, and a rural Pennsylvania field where passengers forced down the fourth plane.
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