The United States remembered the lives lost and transformed by the September 11 attacks Wednesday, on an anniversary surrounded by the politics of the presidential campaign where the president Joe Biden, the former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris were together at Ground Zero on Wednesday.
September 11th —the date when attacks by two hijacked planes killed nearly 3,000 people in 2001—falls in the middle of the election season every four years, and this time it comes at a particularly acute time. The anniversary ceremony at the World Trade Center brought Harris and Trump together, the Democratic and Republican nominees respectively, face to face just hours after their first debate, held on Tuesday night.
Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance, They arrived at the venue around 8am and took photos with some members of the public. Harris arrived with Biden About half an hour later, amid cheers from “¡Kamala!” by some members of the audience.
Biden y Trump They shook hands, and the former mayor of Nueva York Michael Bloomberg He came to facilitate a greeting between Harris y Trump. Then the presidential rivals stood a few feet away, with Biden and Bloomberg among them, as the ceremony began with a ringing of the bell and a moment of silence.
The political backdrop was not the most important thing for the victims’ families, as Cathy Naughton, who came to honor his cousin, Michael Roberts, one of hundreds of firefighters killed in the attack.
Twenty-three years later, “it’s so raw”, said. “We want to make sure that people always remember, and always say the names, and never forget.”he mentioned.
“It doesn’t get easier with each passing year,” he added.
With information from AP
