Trump and Biden both visit the Flight 93 memorial at Shanksville, Pa., to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden both marked the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Friday with visits to a memorial in Pennsylvania, a battleground state in the presidential race, although they didn’t cross paths.
“The heroes of Flight 93 are an everlasting reminder that no matter the danger, no matter the threat, no matter the odds, America will always rise up, stand tall and fight back,” Trump said.Biden, who has criticized Trump for his indifference to the pain and loss of Americans on multiple fronts, told reporters as he boarded a plane to a ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial in New York that his campaign had suspended all advertising to honor the anniversary.
“It never goes away,” he said, handing the woman a white rose, an exchange captured on a reporter’s video.After attending the ceremony, where he crossed paths — and touched elbows — with Vice President Mike Pence, Biden and his wife Jill flew to Shanksville, Pa., to pay their respects to the victims of Flight 93.
In contrast, Americans have viewed this year’s confluent catastrophes of a deadly pandemic and economic nosedive through a political and cultural kaleidoscope, with little sense of collective grief or sacrifice.. The rising death toll — already nearly half the total number of Americans killed in World War II — has been startlingly abstract to many not directly affected, while the virus has disproportionately ravaged poorer, Black and Latino communities.
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