George W. Bush Delivers 9/11 Anniversary Speech in Shanksville

Former President George W. Bush commemorated the 20th day of the Sept. 11 violent attacks connected Saturday by speaking astatine the Flight 93 National Memorial successful Pennsylvania.

Mr. Bush was successful his archetypal twelvemonth arsenic president erstwhile the attacks took place. He was joined astatine the Flight 93 memorial by the erstwhile archetypal lady, Laura Bush.

“For those excessively young to callback that wide September day, it is hard to picture the premix of feelings we experienced,” Mr. Bush said astatine a ceremonial held astatine the memorial. “There was fearfulness astatine the standard of destruction, and awe astatine the bravery and kindness that roseate to conscionable it. There was daze astatine the audacity of evil, and gratitude for the heroism and decency that opposed it.”

He added that “the actions of an force revealed the tone of a people, and we were arrogant of our wounded nation.”