US President Donald Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Alison Crowther, on behalf of her son Welles Remy Crowther, a volunteer firefighter who died in the September 11, 2001, attacks during a "Steel Across America" event ahead of the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks on the Ellipse near the White House on September 8, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)