Mike Pence Marks 25th 9/11 Anniversary, Honoring 2,977 Victims and 7,000 Fallen Troops
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 11
Mike Pence Marks 25th 9/11 Anniversary, Honoring 2,977 Victims and 7,000 Fallen Troops
2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 11
Summary
Pence used the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks to honor the 2,977 people killed that day and the Americans who defended the country in the years that followed.
He argued 9/11 ended a reactive U.S. approach to terrorism, saying America shifted from responding after attacks to trying to stop them before they happened at home and abroad.
Nearly 3 million U.S. service members deployed in the post-9/11 wars, Pence said; more than 7,000 died and tens of thousands were wounded in campaigns against al-Qaeda and later ISIS.
He also highlighted domestic defenders, from law enforcement and Border Patrol agents to air marshals and FDNY families, including 58 children of firefighters killed on 9/11 who later joined the department.
Pence framed the absence of another mass-casualty attack on the U.S. homeland over the past 25 years as proof of that sustained vigilance, urging Americans to keep teaching younger generations about the day.