Posted on 09/11/2018 10:17:04 AM PDT by KC_Lion
President Donald Trump spoke at the 9/11 memorial service in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, recalling the attacks of September 11, 2001. Trump praised the valor of the 40 passengers and crew members of Flight 93 for resisting the terrorists in control of the hijacked plane, which led to the crash in a Pennsylvania field.
“At this memorial on this sacred earth in the field beyond this wall and in the skies above our heads, we remember the moment when America fought back,” Trump said, praising the Americans aboard the flight–“changed the course of history” by resisting the terrorists.
Trump recognized the heroes who planned and voted to take action against the terrorist hijackers.
“At that moment, they took their fate and America’s fate back into their own hands,” he said.
Trump recognized the nearly 7,000 service members who died since 9/11 facing “radical Islamic terrorism” and promised he would do everything he could to prevent another attack on American soil.
“This field is now a monument to American defiance,” he said. “This memorial is now a message to the world: America will never, ever submit to tyranny.”
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Everything else aside, I was living in northern New Jersey at the time. Strange as it may sound, weirdly detached perhaps but I will never forget how incredibly blue the sky was that day. I’d never seen anything like it, before or since. It made it all the more... horribly surreal, the smoke and flames seemed so stark against that blue sky. Prayers for all who were murdered that day.
Pilots call a day like 9/11/01 "severe clear". --- Not a cloud or hint of haze in the sky. Nothing but bright, blazing sun.
While Our First Lady looks divine as always, it cannot cover the sadness on her face.
I wonder if this is her first time at the Flight 93 memorial. (I haven't been, I don't think I could handle it)
Thank you, narses! What brave young men and women. They stepped up! :)
Melania looks very moved. The president looks determined.
And she looks lovely as usual — quite a tasteful dress.
That’s exactly how it was that day.
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