The results of an opinion poll conducted by the US "Fox News" channel showed that nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that the terrorist attacks that took place on September 11, 2001, changed life in their country forever.
About 64% of Americans expressed the opinion that these attacks changed life forever, while 24% considered that they caused temporary changes. Only 9% said that these events did not change anything in their lives.
The opinions of Americans differed deeply on whether September 11th should be a public holiday, with 47% agreeing with this idea and 46% opposing it.
The poll, which included 1,002 people, was conducted between August 7 and 10, nearly a month before the 20th anniversary of the largest terrorist attack on the territory of the United States in its history, which killed about 3 thousand people.
On the other hand, US President Joe Biden instructed his administration to study the possibility of declassifying some documents related to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
"When I ran for president, I assumed an obligation to ensure transparency regarding the declassification of documents relating to the terrorist attacks on America on September 11, 2001," Biden said, in the text of an order issued last Friday.
"Information collected and stored in connection with the United States Government's investigation into the terrorist attacks of September 11 must now be declassified, except in cases where there are the greatest reasons why the opposite is necessary," he added.
In the order, Biden directed the Department of Justice to review the FBI documents identified in the text and report its decision to him within 6 months.
Relatives of a number of victims of the attacks asked a US watchdog to investigate their suspicion that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) "lied" about evidence linking some Middle East countries to the hijackers of the planes used in the attacks or that it "destroyed."
US Senator Robert Menendez, Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also announced the introduction of a bill to declassify intelligence documents about the September 11 attacks.
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