US President Joe Biden attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon in memory of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 US President Joe Biden laid a wreath at the Pentagon in memory of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Twenty-one years ago, one of the four American Airlines Boeing 757 passenger planes hijacked by terrorists rammed the building of the Department of Defense , which flew from Washington to Los Angeles. In the pouring rain, Biden, accompanied by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, straightened the ribbons on the wreath, touched it and put his hand to his heart. In the city of Arlington, in the vicinity of the American capital , the victims of the terrorists were 184 people, including crew members and passengers. 4ecfc1a.jpg» /> The US extended the state of emergency imposed after the September 11, 2001 attacks. After a minute of silence and the playing of the US anthem, the names of the dead were read out at the Pentagon, each of which was marked by a bell. Funeral events on Sunday are also held in New York, where two planes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center, and the state of Pennsylvania, where the fourth airliner hijacked by terrorists crashed. The total number of victims of the attacks was 2997 people.
