Trump: Restoring Department Of War Name Essential Change In Action

(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (KUNA) -- US President Donald Trump affirmed on Thursday the restoration of the name of the Department of War would be a fundamental change in its work and orientations.
Commemorating the September 11 anniversary at the White House, Trump said: "That terrible morning, 24 years ago, time itself stood still. The laughter of schoolchildren fell silent. The rush of hour traffic came to an absolute halt. And for 2,977 innocent souls and their families, the entire world came crashing down so suddenly.
"In the quarter of a century since those acts of mass murder, 9/11 family members have felt the weight of missed birthdays and empty bedrooms, journals left unfinished and dreams left unfulfilled.
He noted 84 years ago this morning, the banks of the Potomac were filled with the clamor of construction workers who broke ground on the building, now known as the Pentagon, on September 11th, 1941. At the time, it was the biggest building ever built.
From that moment forward, this structure stood as a monument to American strength, power and cherished American freedom.
"Exactly six decades later, on September 11th, 2001, those same walls built with the sweat, muscle, and blood of our parents and grandparents, were scarred by flame and shaken by terror as our country came face to face with pure evil," he said.
"On that fateful day, savage monsters attacked the very symbols of our civilization. Yet here in Virginia and in New York and in the skies over Pennsylvania, Americans did not hesitate. They stood on their feet and they showed the world that we will never yield, we will never bend, we will never give up and our great American flag will never ever fail.
"To every member that still feels a void every day of your lives, the first lady and I unite with you in sorrow.
"And today, as one nation, we renew our sacred vow that we will never forget September 11th, 2001. Amid the horror of that morning, some used cell phones and office lines to whisper their final words to those who mattered most.
"In America, we take blows, but we never buckle, we bleed but we do not bow and we defy the fear, endure the flames and emerge from the crucible of every hardship, stronger, prouder and greater than ever before. Last year, we were a dead country. Now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
"That day, we learned that the American heroic spirit was all around us. We saw it in the police officers -- The great firefighters, the service members here at the Pentagon and in the hearts of every American who answered history's call.
"In the years that followed, America's warriors avenged our fallen and sent an unmistakable message to every enemy around the world -- if you attack the United States of America, we will hunt you down and we will find you.
"Go all over this sometimes-magnificent earth, we will crush you without mercy and we will triumph without question. That's why we named the former Department of Defense, the Department of War. It will be different. We won the First World War. We won the Second World War. We won everything before that and in between.
"And then we decided to change the name. Well, now we have it back to where we all want it, everybody wanted it, everybody is so happy to have it back. You will fail and America will win, win, win. The enemy will always fail. 24 years have passed since that Tuesday morning in September, and an entire generation of Americans have come of age in a totally different world.
"This morning, we recall the light of America's best and bravest and the love that they showed in their final moments. In their memory, we make a solemn pledge and a noble promise. We will honor always our great heroes, and you are our heroes.
"We will defend the nation they served, the values they upheld, and the freedom for which they died. We will support our troops, we will protect our families, and we will preserve the American way of life for every future generation. We will build taller, grow stronger, fight harder and soar higher," he concluded. (end)
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