Andy Card Urges 9/11 Remembrance at 25th Anniversary, Reviving 'Never Forget'
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Updated · TODAY · Sep 11
Andy Card Urges 9/11 Remembrance at 25th Anniversary, Reviving 'Never Forget'
3 articles · Updated · TODAY · Sep 11
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Andy Card, 79, used the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks to urge Americans to honor their pledge to “never forget,” warning that too many people have moved on from active remembrance.
Card tied that appeal to his firsthand role on Sept. 11, 2001, when he quietly told President George W. Bush in a Florida classroom, “A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack.”
Since leaving the White House, Card has focused on educating Americans with no memory of 9/11 and now serves on the 9/11 Legacy Foundation’s organizing committee to preserve history and support that effort.
He also cast remembrance as a civic lesson, saying the unity that followed the attacks could still be revived in a country divided by politics and culture wars.