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At Sept. 11 Commemoration, Trump Praises 'Heroes Of Flight 93'

The president said the site of the crash in Shanksville, Pa., "is now a monument to American defiance ... a message to the world America will never ever submit to tyranny."

There were somber ceremonies in New York City, in Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon on Tuesday as President Trump, along with survivors and families of those killed on this date remembered 9/11, 17 years after the terrorist attack.

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