Vice President Harris and President Biden traveled from New York City to Shanksville, Pa., on Wednesday to honor the 9/11 victims of United Flight 93 whose plane was among those hijacked that day.
Harris and Biden laid a white and red wreath down at the memorial site near where the plane crashed into an open field. Both leaders were silent and did not address the crowd before walking through the memorial at 12:37 p.m. and out to the crash site.
United Flight 93 was one of four planes to be hijacked by terrorists but never made it to its final destination after passengers on the flight made phone calls to authorities and their loved ones alerting them of the situation. The passengers eventually took control of the flight, which ended in a high-speed crash over the Pennsylvania field.
The solemn visit by Biden and Harris was their second to a 9/11 memorial on Wednesday. The two earlier in the day stood in a row with former President Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), at the New York City ceremony to mark the victims at the World Trade Center.
Harris and Trump shook hands at the start of the ceremony, an exchange that appeared to be facilitated by former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg just hours after the two faced off in a contentious debate in Philadelphia.
After the ceremony, Trump visited the New York City Fire Department Engine 4/Tower Ladder 15, where he posed for photos and chatted with firefighters and their family members.
The former president was also slated to visit the Flight 93 memorial in Pennsylvania on Wednesday afternoon.
Harris and Biden are next set to travel back to Washington, D.C. and then go to the Pentagon to honor the victims of the attack there, 23 years ago.
