Patriot Day 2026, The 25th Anniversary of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks

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The White House issued a presidential proclamation marking Patriot Day and the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, recounting the timeline of the hijackings, the collapse of the towers, the attack on the Pentagon, and the passengers of Flight 93 who forced their plane down in Shanksville.

The proclamation states that 2,977 people died and credits first responders, volunteers, and the military generation that served in the wars that followed. It also folds in the current administration's framing of its own defense policy, describing an unwavering commitment to maintaining what it calls the strongest and most lethal military in the world.

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A day like this one doesn't need much dressing up, the facts do the work on their own. But you'll notice how a memorial proclamation finds room to praise the sitting administration's military budget in the same breath as Shanksville. That's not remembrance, that's a ribbon-cutting wearing a memorial's clothes.

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