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Updated · Fox News · Sep 3

JD Vance Jokes About 9/11 Meeting With Joe Biden Ahead of 25th Anniversary Ceremony

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Updated · Fox News · Sep 3

JD Vance Jokes About 9/11 Meeting With Joe Biden Ahead of 25th Anniversary Ceremony

Q: Beyond the silence at Ground Zero, what hidden tributes will illuminate New York City's skyline from dusk to dawn?

The main after-dark tribute will be **Tribute in Light**, the annual public art installation that sends two “Memorial Blue” beams into the sky from **dusk on Sept. 11 until dawn on Sept. 12**, echoing the Twin Towers over Lower Manhattan. Beyond those twin beams, **other buildings and landmarks across New York City will also glow blue from dusk to dawn in solidarity and remembrance**. Reporting on the anniversary notes that facades at sites including **David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center and Rockefeller Center** are expected to be illuminated, extending the tribute beyond Ground Zero itself. The skyline display is part of a broader citywide remembrance that complements the morning ceremony’s moments of silence and reading of victims’ names. Organizers and the 9/11 Memorial & Museum frame the nighttime lighting as both a memorial to those killed and a visual reminder for younger generations who did not experience Sept. 11 firsthand.

Q: How will the 40 wind chimes of the Tower of Voices echo the heroism of Flight 93 during the 25th anniversary?

The 40 wind chimes will serve as a living memorial, giving symbolic “voices” to each of the 40 passengers and crew members of Flight 93 whose actions stopped the hijacked plane from reaching its target. At the 93-foot Tower of Voices in Shanksville, each chime represents one victim. As the wind moves through the tower, the chimes create an ever-changing soundscape meant to echo their courage, sacrifice and collective resistance on Sept. 11, 2001. The memorial’s design is intended to keep their presence felt not through speeches alone, but through sound. That symbolism is especially fitting for the 25th anniversary, when White House officials are expected to attend observances at the Flight 93 National Memorial while ceremonies also take place in New York and at the Pentagon. The Shanksville events are expected to include the reading of names, wreath-laying and other remembrance programming focused on the 40 victims. In practical terms, the Tower of Voices will not “reenact” the event; rather, it will honor Flight 93 by turning remembrance into something audible and continuous. The chimes stand as a permanent tribute to the passengers and crew members who fought back, making Flight 93 the only hijacked plane on 9/11 that did not reach the attackers’ intended destination.

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JD Vance said he is "looking forward" to seeing Joe Biden at next week's Ground Zero ceremony, joking they would have "many, many intense intellectual conversations."
The vice president said the White House split its 9/11 plans across all 3 attack sites: Vance will attend in New York, Donald Trump is expected at the Pentagon, and other officials will go to Shanksville.
Vance said Trump's decision to remain in Washington was tied to commemorating the Pentagon attack, not to any security concern in New York City.
The Sept. 11 event marks the 25th anniversary of the attacks and will also bring together Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush.
Vance called the visit a chance to reinforce national unity and urged younger Americans who do not remember 9/11 to watch the commemoration.