Watch former presidents remember 9/11 victims at NYC ceremony
Key Points:
- Former presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and their spouses, including Hillary Clinton, attended the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the World Trade Center site in New York on the 25th anniversary of the attacks.
- The ceremony included six moments of silence marking the times the towers were struck and fell, as well as the Pentagon attack and the crash in Pennsylvania, with a seventh moment honoring those lost to 9/11-related health issues.
- Vice President JD Vance, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and former NYC mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg also participated in the event.
- Former President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attended a separate memorial at the Pentagon, citing a request for him to be there instead of the New York ceremony, with Vance representing the administration in New York.
- The 9/11 attacks resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths and profoundly changed the United States, marking the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil.