Vice President Kamala Harris Speaks At Shanksville, Pennsylvania, 9/11 Memorial Event

NPR | By Scott Detrow,

Ron Elving, Asma Khalid

Published September 11, 2021 at 10:45 AM EDT

Vice President Kamala Harris is attending the Shanksville, Pennsylvania, memorial event. Shanksville was the site of the Flight 93 crash.

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Scott Detrow is a host of All Things Considered, as well as NPR’s daily news podcast Consider This.

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Ron Elving

Ron Elving is Senior Editor and Correspondent on the Washington Desk for NPR News, where he is frequently heard as a news analyst and writes regularly for NPR.org.

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