Twenty years ago to the day, on September 11, 2001, the United States plunged into horror after the attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York. A date forever engraved in the memory of Americans, who today pay tribute, along with the rest of the world, to the victims who perished in this tragedy.
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Queen Elizabeth II paid tribute on Saturday to the victims of the jihadist attacks of September 11 committed twenty years ago, as well as to those who then set about “rebuilding”, in a message to US President Joe Biden. “My thoughts and prayers – and those of my family and the country as a whole – remain with the victims, survivors and affected families, as well as with first responders and rescuers,” said Elizabeth II on the occasion of the commemoration of the twenty years of these attacks of Al-Qaeda.
The 95-year-old sovereign also paid “tribute to the resistance and determination of the communities that united to rebuild” after these attacks, the deadliest in history with some 3,000 dead, including 67 British. The American anthem was played during the changing of the guard at Windsor Castle, about forty kilometers from London, where Elizabeth II had retired for a long time during the pandemic.
Twenty years ago, it had already sounded during the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, London, during a ceremony in tribute to the victims attended by many American tourists in tears. Queen Elizabeth II then cut short her vacation at her Scottish castle at Balmoral to attend, in a mourning suit and black hat, a religious service in St. Paul’s Cathedral, in the British capital, which also began with the American anthem.