evidence: Remarks by President Biden to Service Members, First Responders, and Their Families on the Anniversary of 9/11 | Anchorage, AK [...] Each of us — each of those precious lives stolen too soon when evil attacked. Ground Zero in New York, I remember standing there the next day and looking at the building. I felt like I was looking through the gates of hell, it looked so devastating because of the way you could — where — from where you could stand. [...] The billowing smoke and ash that darkened the clear, blue sky that September day. The shredded steel and concrete slabs that rained down from the World Trade Center.