This article was meant to be about today’s anniversary of the greatest terrorist attack of the modern age. But then my friend, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated.

I am actually writing these words as I am traveling with my White House Counterterrorism team to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to pay tribute to brave passengers of Flight 93, the fourth plane hijacked by al Qaeda Jihadists 24 years ago today.

We will still pay that tribute in the presence of those family members who stand each year on September 11th in that field to hear the names of the mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, daughter and sons who died so other may live. But today will be very different.

I still cannot satisfactorily process what we witnessed yesterday afternoon. And I know I not alone.

There were a small number of u

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