Trump at 9/11 Memorial Event: "America Cannot Be Destroyed by Any Terror"

▲ U.S. President Donald Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump emphasized on the 8th (local time), regarding the 9/11 terrorist attacks 25 years ago, that "our country is larger, better, and stronger than ever before."

Attending the "Steel Across America" event at the Ellipse, south of the White House in Washington, D.C., that day, President Trump said, "As much time has passed since the 9/11 attacks, we gather on another Tuesday morning in September to reaffirm the sacred pledge we made 25 years ago."

This event was arranged to honor the victims ahead of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

The Tunnel to Towers Foundation, a non-profit organization, has been touring across the United States since May to exhibit a 21-foot (approx. 6.4 meters) long, 7.6-ton steel beam recovered from the wreckage of the South Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York, which collapsed during the 9/11 attacks.

Aligning with the day of the terror attacks, which was the second Tuesday of September 2001, the event concluded with this final exhibition in Washington, D.C., on this year's second Tuesday in September.

President Trump stated, "Much has changed since that day, but this twisted piece of steel resting on the Ellipse today reminds us that America is a nation endowed with a strength that no fire can burn, no evil can conquer, and no terror can destroy."

Regarding the war with Iran, which has entered its 7th month, President Trump said, "The reason we are fighting now is because there was a country that wanted nuclear weapons. They came right up to the edge of having nuclear weapons, but now they have no chance. They will not have nuclear weapons, and they have paid a tremendous price."

At the event, President Trump also posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Welles Crowther, a equities trader who died while rescuing many people during the 9/11 attacks when the WTC South Tower collapsed.

The 9/11 attacks, carried out in 2001 by the Islamic fundamentalist group al-Qaeda led by Osama bin Laden, are recorded as the worst tragedy in U.S. history since its founding.

Approximately 3,000 people lost their lives as four hijacked commercial airplanes crashed into the two WTC towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

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