President Barack Obama delivers remarks during a ceremony at the Pentagon commemorating the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, September 11, 2016.
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Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are expected to visit Ground Zero to pay their respects. A doctor for the 68-year-old Democrat said Sunday she had previously been diagnosed with pneumonia.
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As in past years, family members will read out the names of the 2,753 people killed at the World Trade Center, and six others killed there in a 1993 terrorist bombing, a heart-wrenching process that takes hours.
For Dorothy Esposito, the passage of 15 years feels like 15 seconds. Her son, Frankie, was killed.
FILE- In this Sept. 11, 2015 file photo, Suzi Balco, of St. Joseph, Mich., top left, places a flag at the name of Todd Beamer at the Wall of Names after a Service of Remembrance at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. Victims’ relatives and dignitaries will convene Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016, at the site for one of the constants in how America remembers 9/11 after 15 years, the anniversary ceremony itself.
In Washington, President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford addressed the families and friends of the 9/11 victims in a ceremony at the Pentagon Memorial.
With solemn ceremonies and prayers, moments of silence and the ringing of bells, the nation on Sunday planned to mark the 15th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of 2,977 victims and forever changed how the United States views itself and its place in the world.
Fifteen years ago, the United States changed forever when four airliners crashed into the Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
At the Flight 93 National Memorial in southwestern Pennsylvania, the ceremony will include music, the reading of the names of the 40 victims who died there and the ringing of bells. We miss every day.
This summer, the younger D’Amadeo worked with children affected by the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 26 children and adults were killed in 2012.
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.
“I’ve got mixed emotions, but I’m still kind of numb”, he said.
“Sometimes the bad things in our lives put us on the path to where we should be going – to help others as many have helped me”, he said. The 9/11 museum and memorial plaza, three skyscrapers and an architecturally audacious transit hub have been built on land that was a disaster zone when he last saw it. “I think everyone needs closure, and this is my time to have closure”.
“I will keep coming as long as I am walking and breathing”, Cava said, wearing a T-shirt with a photo of her slain sister, Grace Susca Galante.
The campaign says she’s “feeling much better”. “I have to think that way”.
Two giant towers of light are illuminating the night sky in lower Manhattan as a visual memorial to those who lost their lives on 9/11. Striking ray of light beams off WTC days before 9/11 anniversaryThe beams from the 88 searchlights represent the twin towers.
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They’ll stay lit until dawn.
