00:01The New York Police Department on Wednesday unveiled a new 9-11 memorial wall honoring its officers.
00:08Located at NYPD headquarters in downtown Manhattan, the wall provides a place for relatives, fellow officers, and members of the
00:17public to pay tribute to officers killed on September 11, 2001, and in the years since.
00:23In the days and months that followed September 11, thousands of NYPD officers and staff from across every precinct and
00:31every borough heeded that same call.
00:33They took on that same heavy and incalculable risk.
00:37When we say never forget, it is not an empty platitude.
00:41It is an obligation to honor all that was given by the men and women of the NYPD and their
00:46fellow first responders, by tending to those who are sick, and by building a city worthy of their sacrifice.
00:52The scale of the loss and the devastation that day was unfathomable, and so too was the heroism that we
00:58witnessed in response.
01:01Preserving that history also means preserving its moral clarity.
01:05The men who attacked this city were terrorists.
01:09The men and women who ran into the towers to save innocent lives were heroes.
01:1525 years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction and shame on those who do.
01:22Nineteen al-Qaeda members hijacked four passenger planes and carried out the attacks at the World Trade Center.
01:29The United States responded by launching a war in Afghanistan that ousted the Taliban government, which had harbored al-Qaeda
01:37leader Osama bin Laden.
01:41The United States moved to the United States'
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