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A Look Back: Queen Elizabeth II honors Americans killed on 9/11

A Look Back: Queen Elizabeth II honors Americans killed on 9/11

[html]FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021 file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Patron, leaves after attending a Service of Thanksgiving to mark the Centenary of the Royal British Legion at Westminster Abbey, in London. Queen Elizabeth II is Britain’s longest-lived and longest-reigning monarch. But don’t call her an oldie. The 95-year-old queen has politely declined the honor of being named “Oldie of the Year” by a British magazine. The Oldie magazine on Tuesday Oct. 19, 2021, published the queen’s response to its suggestion. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool, File)Twenty-one years ago, the world changed forever when Islamist terrorists attacked the United States on September 11. As a result, air space above the US was co*pletely shut down for three days, stranding thousands of Americans abroad.
                              FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021 file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Patron, leaves after attending a Service of Thanksgiving to mark the Centenary of the Royal British Legion at Westminster Abbey, in London. Queen Elizabeth II is Britain’s longest-lived and longest-reigning monarch. But don’t call her an oldie. The 95-year-old queen has politely declined the honor of being named “Oldie of the Year” by a British magazine. The Oldie magazine on Tuesday Oct. 19, 2021, published the queen’s response to its suggestion. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool, File)
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UPDATED 8:06 AM PT – Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Twenty-one years ago, the world changed forever when Islamist terrorists attacked the United States on September 11. As a result, air space above the US was co*pletely shut down for three days, stranding thousands of Americans abroad.


Just two days later in the U.K. to honor the Americans lost that horrific day, the late Queen Elizabeth II broke 600-years of tradition for her royal changing of the guard. Instead of the traditional British patriotic music, she requested the Royal Band play the Star-Spangled Banner. Take a look:



  
   
   


   

       
   



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