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sky in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Trump praised the courage of the 40 men and women aboard Flight 93 who rushed the four hijackers who had
diverted the plane and were targeting Washington."The passengers and crew members came together, took a vote, and they decided to act,"
They fought until the very end
And they stopped the forces of terror and defeated this wicked, horrible evil plan."He said the "brave patriots turned the tide on our
nation's enemies and joined the immortal ranks of American heroes."After calling their loved ones to say final farewells, many passengers
aboard Flight 93 are believed to have charged the hijackers and prevented it from striking the US capital.The plane crashed into a field in
the rural Pennsylvanian town, where a permanent memorial called the "Tower of Voices" has been erected."This memorial is now a message to
America will never, ever submit to tyranny," Trump said, noting that nearly 5.5 million Americans have joined the US military since
added, while also paying tribute to the nearly 7,000 US service members who have been killed "facing down the menace of radical Islamic
terrorism."A short while earlier in Trump's native New York, at Ground Zero, there was a minute's silence at 8:46 am (1246 GMT), the moment
the first of two hijacked airliners struck the World Trade Center.In what has become an annual tradition, relatives began reading out the
long list of those who were killed, saying a few words about those who died, in a ceremony that takes longer than three hours.- Deadliest
ever attacks -In all, four planes were hijacked by Al-Qaeda militants who used them to topple the trade center's twin towers and hit the
unfurled over the building's western side at sunrise, marking the spot where Flight 77 smashed into the military headquarters.All 59
passengers and crew aboard the flight were killed, along with another 125 personnel working in the Pentagon.During a ceremony at the
Pentagon's 9/11 memorial site, where the names of the fallen are etched into a series of benches, Vice President Mike Pence touted Trump's
support for the military."Last year, President trump signed the largest increase in our national defense in a generation," Pence said."And
with that renewed support, we are giving our men and women in uniform and their commanding officers the resources and rules of engagement
they need to fight and win where the perpetrators of this attack found safe haven."In addition to those killed on September 11, thousands of
first responders, construction workers and residents have since developed illness, many of them terminal, as a result of inhaling toxic
