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United States mourns on 15th anniversary of 9/11
On September 11, 2001, 19 Al-Qaeda operatives crashed four passenger jets into the Twin Towers in Manhattan, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania -- killing nearly 3,000 people and changing the world forever. This year´s anniversary comes with the United States locked in a bruising White House election battle between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, who both attended the New York service, although Clinton left early after feeling unwell. Even 15 years later, the long shadow cast by the attacks lives on in wars being fought today in Iraq and Afghanistan, and conflict tearing apart countries from Libya to Syria, allowing Al-Qaeda affiliates and the Islamic State (IS) terror group to breed and prosper. President Barack Obama said ** words or deeds could ever truly erase the pain of loss, but urged Americans to stand true to the nation´s ideals and **t allow groups like Al-Qaeda and IS to divide the country. "It is so important today that we reaffirm our character as a nation," he told a remembrance service at the Pentagon. "Our diversity, our *****work heritage, is **t a weakness. It is still and always will be one of our greatest strengths." In New York, relatives fought back tears, clasped onto each other and bowed their heads at the September 11 Memorial on the site of the destroyed World Trade Center, which was closed to the general public. The emotional service -- in the shadow of the newly built Freedom Tower -- observed six moments of silence to ho**r the four attacks and the moments each of the Twin Towers collapsed. Each year, family members spend hours reading out the names of all the dead at the memorial, an increasing number of them young adults who never or barely knew lost parents, uncles, aunts and grandparents. Mourners sobbed and laid flowers in the grooves of their loved ones´ names, carved into the walls of two reflecting pools in the footprint of the towers overlooked by the Freedom Tower, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. Trump called the anniversary "a day of sadness and remembrance" but also "a day of resolve." George W. Bush, who was president at the time of the attacks, spent the morning at church in Dallas, Texas, his home state. أكثر... ??????? ??????: United States mourns on 15th anniversary of 9/11 || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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