{"id":6335,"date":"2024-09-09T10:56:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T15:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whia.us\/?p=6335"},"modified":"2024-09-10T10:16:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T15:16:10","slug":"president-biden-to-commemorate-anniversary-of-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whia.us\/en\/6335\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States marks 23 years since 9\/11, from ground zero to Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Wash – WHIA\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Americans are looking back on the horror and legacy of 9\/11, gathering Monday at memorials, firehouses, city halls and elsewhere to observe the 22nd anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil.<\/p>\n

Commemorations stretch from the attack sites \u2014 at New York\u2019s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania \u2014 to Alaska and beyond. President Joe Biden is due at\u00a0a ceremony on a military base<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in Anchorage.<\/p>\n

His visit, en route to Washington, D.C., from a trip to\u00a0India and Vietnam<\/a><\/span>, is a reminder that the impact of 9\/11 was felt in every corner of the nation, however remote. The hijacked plane attacks claimed nearly 3,000 lives and\u00a0reshaped American foreign policy<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0domestic fears<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

On that day, \u201cwe were one country, one nation, one people, just like it should be. That was the feeling \u2014 that everyone came together and did what we could, where we were at, to try to help,\u201d said Eddie Ferguson, the fire-rescue chief in Virginia\u2019s Goochland County.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the Pentagon and more than three times as far from New York. But a sense of connection is enshrined in a local memorial incorporating steel from the World Trade Center\u2019s destroyed twin towers.<\/p>\n

The predominantly rural county of 25,000 people holds not just one but two anniversary commemorations: a morning service focused on first responders and an evening ceremony honoring all the victims.<\/p>\n

Other communities across the country pay tribute with moments of silence, tolling bells, candlelight vigils and other activities. In Columbus, Indiana, 911 dispatchers broadcast a remembrance message to police, fire and EMS radios throughout the 50,000-person city, which also holds a public memorial ceremony.<\/p>\n

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Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks by the terrorist group of al-Qaida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[142,141,128],"tags":[789,571,790,145],"series":[1027],"coauthors":[238],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-most-important-topics-en","category-international-events-en","category-updates-en","tag-11-september-attacks","tag-counterterrorism","tag-terrorists","tag-usa-en","series-whia-synergy"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/whia.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/911-1-e1694427014970.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/whia.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/whia.us\/en\/feed\/podcast\/whia-synergy","embedCode":"

The United States marks 23 years since 9\/11, from ground zero to Alaska<\/a><\/blockquote>