“We just decided as a family since it was the 15th anniversary that we would all get together and make a bus trip to NY to celebrate her life”, Keaton said.
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A visitor to the National September 11 Memorial arranges flowers on the north pool, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016, in NY.
The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were a familiar sight to New Yorkers. It’s been fifteen years since two terrorist-hijacked passenger airlines brought down New York City’s World Trade Center.
He is then slated to head to the Pentagon to speak at this morning’s memorial service.
Hundreds of family members and friends read out the names of the almost 3,000 people, including Indians, who died in the 9/11 attacks 15 years ago in a solemn ceremony at a memorial built here on Ground Zero as the United States commemorated the anniversary of the biggest terror attack on its soil. We must continue to honor the heroism displayed by so many ordinary people that day: the first responders, the remarkable group of passengers who kept one plane from reaching its Washington target, and the countless others who pitched in to help in whatever way they could in the hard days following the attacks.There is one aspect of the immediate post-9/11 period that we would do well to emulate today. This year we commemorate 15 years since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in NY. “We stay true to the spirit of this day by defending not only our country, but also our ideals”, he said.
In his weekly address released on Saturday, Obama hailed the values and resilience that he said both defined and sustained Americans.
A girl, about 6 years old, in a blue-and-white striped dress, held a single yellow chrysanthemum and followed her family through the memorial garden to place the flower on one of the 184 curved benches, a narrow channel of rippling water reflecting light below them, spaced between crape myrtle trees.
The first of what will be six moments of silence was observed at 8:46 am (1246 GMT) – the time when the first hijacked passenger jet hit the North Tower of the World Trade Centre.
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. “Many people make their own t-shirts to remember the loved one from their family that died”.
“I think everyone’s a little more on guard”, said Hal Shane, 68, a retired Broadway performer who lives uptown and who visited the memorial for the first time this week. “I saw it crash”, he said. But his remarks also carried a more pointedly political message, the Washington Post said.
Tom Meehan missed the ceremony past year because of health issues.
The crowd has thinned somewhat at the anniversary ceremony in recent years.
For Dorothy Esposito, the passage of 15 years feels “like 15 seconds”. Nearly 10,000 others were treated for injuries, many severe.
After the reading of the final name on the list of those killed on 9/11, a musician played taps.
Among those who died were 343 firefighters, 23 police officers and 37 officers with the Port Authority of NY and New Jersey.
Hundreds of victims’ relatives and dignitaries began arriving at ground zero Sunday morning under an overcast sky that shrouded the 1,776-foot-tall top of One World Trade Center, the centerpiece of the rebuilt site.
That day, Bitwinski and nine colleagues helped a quadriplegic friend, John Abruzzo, into a special evacuation chair and took turns guiding the chair down 69 flights of stairs.
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They escaped the building 13 minutes before the tower collapsed.
