09/13/2026
Hillary Clinton pens a powerful message to America on the 25th anniversary of 9/11:
“In the days following 9/11, people were everywhere, doing whatever they could. First responders were still searching through the rubble at Ground Zero. Medical workers were treating people. Volunteers were bringing food and water. Construction workers were clearing debris. Americans were helping strangers. People who had every reason to be frightened kept showing up for one another.
That is something worth remembering 25 years later: in the aftermath of catastrophe, people look around, they see what is needed, and they help.
If you survived 9/11, or lost someone you love that day, you know that the tragedy didn’t end when the towers fell. It didn’t end when the debris was cleared, or when the cameras left Lower Manhattan, the Pentagon, and a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
For many, the consequences have continued for 25 years. You have carried memories that most people can only imagine. You have lived with illnesses and injuries. You have lost people you love and feel their absence on birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, and all the ordinary moments of a life that went on without them.
Some have spent years making sure that your loved ones are remembered. Others have spent years making sure that those who became sick after 9/11 receive the care they need.
And a third of Americans today weren’t alive or were too young to remember 9/11. You know that day through stories from your parents and grandparents, from photographs and videos.
That gives all of us a special responsibility. To listen to those who were there, remember the people we lost, and carry forward the courage and resilience communities showed in the face of unimaginable loss. That is how, individually and as a nation, we will never forget.”
