00:00It marks 25 years since a day that was etched forever into the memories of Americans.
00:07On 9-11, nearly 3,000 precious souls were stolen from us, killed by evil terrorists at the World Trade
00:14Center,
00:15the Pentagon, and on Flight 93.
00:19All of these years later, we gather on another Tuesday morning in September
00:24to reaffirm the sacred vow we made a quarter of a century ago.
00:29We will never forget, we say it and we mean it, we will never forget those we lost
00:35and we will never forget the immortal heroes of September 11th, 2001.
00:43September 11th was one of those moments in time where you always, everybody knows exactly where they were.
00:49I know exactly where I was.
00:50I was watching and looking and it was a beautiful, beautiful morning.
00:56And I looked out and then all of a sudden I saw an alert on television.
01:01I looked out my window and I saw things that I never want to see again.
01:04We're never going to see them again.
01:06But in just over 100 minutes, 175,000 tons of steel and concrete were reduced to ruin
01:13and 3,000 lives were extinguished, immediately extinguished.
01:17The world we knew and the nation that we loved had changed.
01:22I said it to myself.
01:24And I looked and I said, well, the world has changed forever.
01:29So many things have changed because of that day.
01:31Yet this battered piece of steel here today on the ellipse is a reminder that America is blessed with its
01:38strength.
01:38No fire can consume, no evil can conquer, and no terror can destroy.
01:43No fire can destroy.
01:44No fire can destroy.
01:44No fire can destroy.
01:44No fire can destroy.
01:44No fire can destroy.
