He 24th anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers He found the United States with an act headed by Donald Trump In the Pentagon. The president sought to print a solemn tone to the ceremony, appealing both the pain of families and national pride. “Our country faced face to face with pure evil”remarked in a speech full of images and phrases that remembered the magnitude of the tragedy.
What did not go unnoticed was the announcement that Charlie Kirk, conservative reference killed days ago in Utahyou will receive the La Libertad Presidential Medal in a posthumous way. The president presented him as a central figure in American youth policy, and promised that the official ceremony will congregate a crowd.
The day combined the memory of the almost 3,000 dead of 11-S with the political present marked by the crime of Kirk. Trump He spoke accompanied by the First Lady Melania, the head of the Joint Chief Dan Caine and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, while families listened to the reading of the 184 names of the victims of the Pentagon attack.
Trump’s tribute to victims
In the stand there were moments of deep recollection. Each name read was accompanied by the sound of a bell, a gesture that gave the act an almost ritual cadence. Trump also recalled the placement of the founding stone of the Pentagon in 1941 and how, sixty years later, the building suffered one of the most symbolic blows of the attacks.
In the speech, the president reread some of the messages that victims They sent their families before dying. Among them, Bryan Sweeney’s words to his wife –“Do good, spend it well, I love you”– And the voice of a pregnant passenger who managed to say “I love you, mom” seconds before impact.
Trump also returned to his characteristic style by claiming that the Defense Department recovers the name of “war department”, something that had generated debate in American politics. “We won the First World War, we won the second, we won everything … and now we have it back where everyone wanted it”he expressed before the applause.
Attempt to the Twin Towers: when horror came true
The morning of September 11, 2001 The story changed. Four planes were kidnapped by Al Qaeda terrorists and used as weapons against New York and Washington. Two impacted the twin towers, one on the Pentagon and another crashed into Pennsylvania after the resistance of the passengers.
The images of smoke, from people escaping dust, firefighters and rescuers facing the impossible, were recorded forever. Almost 3,000 people lost their lives in a matter of hoursincluding office workers, tourists, emergency personnel and flight crew.
The attack not only collapsed buildings: opened a cycle of wars in the Middle Eastit hardened security in airports and marked an entire generation.
Source: Ambito
