After the September 11 Commemoration Ceremony, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo will join more than 450 motorcycle riders participating in the 9/11 Memorial Motorcycle Ride at a lunch in New York City.
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During the ceremony the names of the victims were read slowly by their relatives as music was played, which paused for six moments of silence.
About an hour before the official commemoration start, police officers in uniform and bagpipers rehearsed part of the ceremony involving a display of the U.S. flag.
The age of terror had begun.
The federal government’s return to the World Trade Center sends a “message to the entire world that we will never, ever renounce our values or be afraid”, – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. “We can’t leave the events of September 11 behind”, Felt said.
The fact that we are beginning to see things like this occur – something that would have been unthinkable following the attacks – is perhaps an indication that we need to remind each other of how that day affected us personally and our country collectively.
Albert Biatta, of Queens, New York, prays while standing in front of the inscribed name of his uncle Antoine Biatta at the edge of the North Pool during memorial observances held at the site of the World Trade Center in New York, Sep.
In Wichita, firefighters from around Kansas honored the 343 firefighters killed on 9/11.
At Sunday’s memorial service in NY, surviving relatives stepped to the microphones in pairs at the spot where the towers once stood. By late morning, the sun had broken through the clouds on a humid day.
8;40 a.m. Lionel Keaton came on a bus to NY from North Carolina with 50 relatives to remember his niece Tamitha Freeman, 35, who died in the south tower. The financial services firm lost 658 employees that day.
It’s been 15 years, and each year we seem to have fewer remembrances. The hole is still there.
We woke up that September morning blissfully ignorant of what that bad day would bring. For decades, you looked up, and they were there.
“I’ve got mixed emotions, but I’m still kind of numb”, said Johnson, now a police chief in Forest City, Pennsylvania.
Family members came forward to name and honor their relatives who died at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and on Flight 93.
Almost 3,000 people died when hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville on September 11, 2001.
During the main memorial service at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in NY, the names of victims will be read starting at 8:46 am local time (1246 GMT), which marks the time the first hijacked airplane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center. “During the ceremony, she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment, and is feeling much better”, the statement said.
A moment of silence will be held at the White House at 8:46 a.m. and the Pentagon ceremony starts at 9:30 a.m.
More than 23 million people have visited the memorial site since it opened in September 2011 and more than 4 million visitors have been to the museum, which opened in May 2014.
“Perhaps it’s the memory of a last kiss given to a spouse or the last goodbye to a mother or father, a sister or a brother”. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you.
A ceremony was also held in Shanksville, Pa., where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field after passengers and crew members fought off the attackers.
Tom Rooney, president of Rooney Sports, and some of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team comforted Flight 93 families 15 years ago and raised money for the memorial there.
“In the face of terrorism, how we respond matters”.
“What I’m really scared about is that 9/11 is becoming a footnote”, said Scott Matty, 62, who suffers from blood cancer.
At the Pentagon, Obama praised an America “drawn from every corner of the world, every color, every religion, every background”.
“Our patchwork heritage is not a weakness – it is still and always will be one of our greatest strengths”, Obama said.
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If the attacks had never happened, America would be talking about then-senator Joe Biden’s attack on then-President Bush or the oil price hike. “This is the America that we must remain true to”.
