World Trade Center Memorial, New York City | Adobe Stock
World Trade Center Memorial, New York City | Adobe Stock
Republican state Sen. Dan McConchie vowed to never forget while speaking at a recent 9/11 memorial.
“There are few things that an entire nation remembers,” McConchie posted on Twitter. "Let us never forget this attack on the innocent and sacrifices made by our first responders who died trying to save them.”
Nearly 3,000 people were killed when several plans hijacked by 19 suicide bombers with known ties to the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda steered plans into buildings in New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., according to Brittanica. The attacks were largely engineered by Osama bin Laden, then the leader of the militant Islamic organization al-Qaeda.
Illinois state Sen. Dan McConchie
In September 2001, President George Bush placed a $25 million bounty bin Laden's his head for his capture, dead or alive.
Finally, on May 6 2011, under then-President Barack Obama, American forces were able to track bin Laden to the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where a team of Navy Seals were able to locate and kill him.
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