“I use this day to honor all of those that served during the global war on terrorism,” Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, told Newsmax, as the nation marks 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
She said that “9/11 was a very dark day for the United States of America” during an appearance on “Wake Up America.” “But what it did do was motivate patriots all across the United States of America. And it brought us together in a way that other acts had not.
“So for those of us that served in the global war on terror, we knew that we were fighting for a just cause. We knew that we were protecting the United States of America from those foreign terrorists abroad that brought that fight to our very own homeland.”
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