While visiting New York on September 20, 2001, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said: ” ‘I can only imagine what it must have been like for the people of New York for the past nine days. My father’s generation went through the Blitz. They know what it is like to suffer this deep tragedy and attack. There was one country and one people which stood by us at that time. That country was America and those people were the American people. As you stood by us in those days, we stand side by side with you now. Your loss is our loss. Your struggle is our struggle.’ ”
– Tony Blair, A Journey, Page 353