Leading his first commemoration of the solemn 9/11 anniversary, US President Donald Trump says that “the living, breathing soul of America wept with grief” for each of the nearly 3,000 lives that were lost on that day 16 years ago.
Addressing an audience at the Pentagon, one of three sites attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, Trump uses the anniversary to sternly warn terrorists that “America cannot be intimidated.” He says those who try are destined to join a long list of vanquished enemies “who dared to test our mettle.”
“The terrorists who attacked us thought they could incite fear and weaken our spirit,” Trump says later at the Pentagon, where he was joined by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “But America cannot be intimidated and those who try will join a long list of vanquished enemies who dared test our mettle.”
He says that when America is united, “no force on earth can break us apart.”
— AP
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