It has been 22 years since passenger planes hijacked by Islamist terrorists slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania, killing almost 3,000 Americans as well as citizens of other countries.
In the years since that dark day, every president has made a point of honoring the victims of the worst terrorist attack on our nation by attending memorial services at one of the sites where the attacks took place.
This year, however, President Joe Biden decided to do something different, and he is facing serious backlash for it.
Biden decided to mark the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by spending it at a “memorial service” in Alaska, rather than in New York City. He was returning to the U.S. from a Group of 20 summit in India, then a visit to Vietnam.
In 2021, the president visited all three crash sites and in 2022, he made a speech at the Pentagon. This year, however, he has chosen to skip the crash sites altogether. First lady Jill Biden remained in Washington.
So if no one from the first family showed up, who was sent to New York City to commemorate the victims? None other