At a Pentagon ceremony, President Barack Obama praised military members and others who have helped the USA fight terrorism, urged Americans not to let their enemies divide them and called the countrys diversity one of its greatest strengths.
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They’ll stay lit until dawn. Neither candidate was expected to make public remarks at a ceremony where politicians have been allowed to attend, but not speak, since 2011. The son said he worked this summer with children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six school staffers were massacred in 2012.
“Sometimes the bad things in our lives put us on a path to where we should be”, said D’Amadeo, who was 10 when he lost his father, Vincent.
I believe most of her spirit, or at least some of her spirit, is here, Cava said.
He adds, “During the ceremony, she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment, and is feeling much better”. In his weekly address to the nation issued September 10, 2016, President Barack Obama recalled the 9/11 attacks that struck the United States 15 years ago.
Meanwhile, the crowd has thinned somewhat at the anniversary ceremony in recent years.
Clinton – a former NY senator – has frequently highlighted her efforts, including in a campaign ad released Friday, to aid those affected by the World Trade Center collapse.
James Johnson was there for the first time since he last worked on the rescue and recovery efforts in early 2002, when he was a New York City police officer.
The commemoration of the 15th anniversary of 9/11 has begun at ground zero. Almost 3-thousand people were killed when terrorists hijacked passenger jets and crashed them into the World Trade Center in NY, the Pentagon and into a field in rural Pennsylvania. At Ground Zero in Manhattan, the first moment of silence will be held at 8:46 a.m., local time, the time when the first plane hit the North Tower.
Sunday marked the 15th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks that claimed almost 3,000 lives and forever changed Americans’ feelings of safety at home.
President Barack Obama will speak at an observance at the Pentagon.
Donald Trump has repeatedly questioned whether Clinton is physically fit to be president.
The Al-Qaeda attacks killed 2,753 people in NY, 184 at the Pentagon in Washington, DC and 40 on Flight 93 – which had been heading towards the United States capital when the passengers and crew staged a rebellion and the hijackers crashed the plane into a field in Pennsylvania.
Over 1,000 victims’ family members, survivors and dignitaries at ground zero under an overcast sky.
As it has every year, the remembrance will mainly focus on the reading of the names of those killed in the attacks.
Other moments of silence were due to be observed at the time when each tower fell, as well as the attack on the Pentagon and Flight 93.
The U.S. marked the 15th anniversary of 9/11 on Sunday, with victims’ relatives reading their names and reflecting on a loss that still felt as immediate to them as it was indelible for the nation. The ceremony included a joint service honor guard to pay tribute to those who lost their lives 15 years ago.
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The customs include moments of silence and tolling bells, an apolitical atmosphere and the reading of the almost 3,000 names of those killed in NY, at the Pentagon and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
