About 9 years and 1 hour ago, 1 World Trade Center (North Tower) fell.  2 World Trade Center (South Tower) had fallen about 30 minutes earlier.  We were attacked.  Attacked by an enemy that hated America, an enemy that remains at large.  Our brave men and women of the military went into action against the regimes of Afghanistan and Iraq, those whom were harboring our attackers.  While progress has been made, there's still work to be done.

The rebuilding continues at the World Trade Center site, the new 1 World Trade Center will rise as a tower of hope and remembrance.  The 8 acre memorial on the footprints of the original towers are almost completed and will be visited by millions from across the world to give their respects.  We must never forget those that lost their lives on that day, the worst terrorist attack on American soil.

I write this in memory of those almost 3,000 men and women who were murdered in cold blood in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC.  Their families are in my thoughts and prayers today.   God Bless America.