First lady Jill Biden at memorial for Flight 93 on the 21st anniversary of 9/11: 'This is the legacy we must carry forward: hope that defies hate. Love that defies loss. And the ties that hold us together through it all.'
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“No matter how many years have passed, nobody can actually comprehend that what happened that very day,” she added. But like some other victims' relatives, Jay Saloman fears that Americans' consciousness of 9/11 is receding. More than 70 of Sekou Siby's co-workers perished at Windows on the World, the restaurant atop the trade center's north tower. Siby had been scheduled to work that morning until another cook asked him to switch shifts.
“We have an obligation, a duty, a responsibility to defend, preserve and protect our democracy — the very democracy that guarantees the right to freedom that those terrorists on 9/11 sought to bury in the burning fire, smoke and ash,” the Democrat said.
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