Biden’s Alaska remarks are the first time he has delivered a 9/11 anniversary speech as president at a site that was not hit in the attack.
, he visited ground zero in New York, traveled to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and then went to the Pentagon.
Other top officials of the Biden administration and their families are remembering 9/11 at the more traditional sites for administration commemorations. Earlier on Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris visited New York City's September 11th Memorial. First lady Jill Biden will lay a wreath at the Pentagon memorial in Arlington, Virginia, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will lay a wreath in Shanksville in honor of Flight 93.
During last year's speech, Biden also referred to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and said that"our commitment to preventing another attack on the United States is without end.""September 11 is a day not only to remember, but a day of renewal and resolve for every American — in our devotion to this country, to the principles it embodies, to our democracy," he wrote in theThe Alaska stop caps off the president's around-the-world trip.
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