US President Donald Trump is at the Pentagon today, marking two and a half decades since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington that took place on September 11, 2001.
This is the second year in a row that Trump has marked the event at the Pentagon.
Trump is a native New Yorker, and in 2024, he spent the anniversary of the attacks in New York for the last time, at the site of the former World Trade Center, which was destroyed in an attack by two hijacked passenger planes.
Americans will mark September 11th - a day that most of them, according to polls, consider to be the most historically important moment in their lives - by laying wreaths at monuments to the dead, waving flags, observing a minute of silence, paying tribute, and reading the names of the victims.
In a speech delivered at the Pentagon, the president referred to the current US war against Iran: "We salute the members of the military who are working right now to ensure that the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism - the Islamic Republic of Iran - never obtains a nuclear weapon."
"In those horrific days after the attacks (of September 11), we saw the authentic spirit of our nation. We were all New Yorkers that day. Every one of us. We were all New Yorkers. We were all family," Trump said at the Pentagon.
The president and his wife Melania Trump, sitting on stage, listened to the names of the 184 people who died in the attack by a hijacked passenger plane on the Pentagon building in Washington.
After each name, a bell rang. The face of each victim was displayed on a large screen near the stage.
While Trump is at the Pentagon, four former US presidents - Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Joseph Biden - were spotted in Manhattan, New York, at a ceremony there to commemorate the attacks on the World Trade Center.
US Vice President J.D. Vance is also in New York.
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