The Texas couple met on September 11, after their plane was diverted to Canada
Although 9/11 separated so many loved ones, it brought together Houston couple Nick and Diane Marson in the strangest way.
The pair flew separately on an international flight to the United States on September 11, 2001, when their plane was diverted to New Foundland, Canada, after the attacks and after closing US airspace. , according to FOX 26 Houston.
“I noticed that the flight attendant was extremely nervous and almost visibly shaking and I thought she wasn’t really cut out for this job,” Nick, 73, told Station. “Little did I realize I was probably walking around the plane looking for other people who could have been terrorists.”
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Queen Elizabeth offers “thoughts and prayers” on 9/11
Queen Elizabeth II celebrated twenty years since the 9/11 attacks by offering her sympathies to the victims, survivors and families affected by the atrocity.
In a message to U.S. President Joe Biden, the British monarch recalled the “terrible attacks” on New York and Washington, DC
“My thoughts and prayers, and those of my family and the entire nation, remain the victims, the survivors and the families affected, as well as the first aid and rescue workers called to the service,” he said.
“My visit to the World Trade Center site in 2010 remains firm in my memory. It reminds me that by honoring those of many nations, denominations and backgrounds who lost their lives, we also pay tribute to the resilience and determination of the communities that came together to rebuild. “
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has also recalled the attacks, issuing a statement ahead of the anniversary that said the terrorists had not “shaken our belief in freedom and democracy.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Pennsylvania ceremony honors 40 passengers and crew who thwarted terrorists on Flight 93
Hundreds of people lined the road to Flight 93 Memorial near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Friday night as 40 people carried flashlights, representing passengers and crew who defeated the terrorist hijackers on the plane before boarding. to a field, according to a report. .
The lighting ceremony is an annual tradition at the monument, but it had a weighted importance after 20 years since 9/11.
“We need that,” said Gordon Felt, who lost his brother during the flight that day, to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “Our country and the world need places like the National Memorial of Flight 93 because it reminds us who we are, who we became, and maybe who we could become a healing again.”
Biden announces “national unity” in a pre-recorded 9/11 message in the United States
In a video released Friday, President Biden reflected on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in America, insisting that “national unity” is America’s “greatest force.”
Biden opened the video by talking to his friend Davis, with whom Biden said he “grew up in Delaware.”
“That day, 20 years ago, he and his family had just spent the first year without their youngest son of three, Teddy, who died in a boating accident at the age of 15,” Biden said as he began describing the horror of a family that day.
“His eldest son, Davis Jr., had just six days in a new job on the 104th floor of the south tower of the World Trade Center.”
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The United States celebrates its 20th anniversary of 9/11
The United States will mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Saturday with commemorations at the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and a camp near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
The anniversary of the milestone comes just weeks after the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the return to power of the Taliban, the faction that protected the Muslim militant group founded by Osama bin Laden that carried out the attacks. .
The Associated Press contributed to this report.