Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Sunday news shows that the United States is safer now than it was in 2001 against another 9/11-style attack but continues to face the challenge of potential attacks by solo and homegrown violent extremists.
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Tears, vows and memories marked emotionally charged ceremonies Sunday at the World Trade Center site, the Pentagon and a rural field in western Pennsylvania on the 15th anniversary of the most deadly terror attack in USA history. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, center left, Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-New York, second from left, and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, center top, attends a ceremony at the Sept. 11 memorial, in New York, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016. The grief never goes away.
On Sunday, in what will be Obama’s last 9/11 memorial service as the nation’s president, Obama urged Americans not to let its enemies divide them.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, center, greets members of the audience as he attends a ceremony at the Sept. 11 memorial, in New York, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016, on the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Almost 3,000 people were killed in the attacks – 67 of them British. “P.S, Dad, I love you”.
The campaign says she’s “feeling much better”.
They gathered at Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville as ceremonies were also taking place Sunday in NY and at the Pentagon. “Don’t believe it”, said Quinn, who added that he served in the military in Iraq after September 11.
Mourners hold a photo of their loved one during the 15th anniversary of the attacks of the World Trade Center at the National September 11 Memorial, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016, in NY.
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.
Almost 3,000 people were killed in New York, Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon on September 11. They’ll stay lit until dawn. Thousands of people demonstrated in Barcelona to call for the creation of a new Mediterranean nation, as they celebrate the Catalan National Day holiday. “Many people make their own t-shirts to remember the loved one from their family that died”.
And that’s why, he said, “it is so important today that we reaffirm our character as a nation of people drawn from every corner of the world, every color, every religion, every background, bound by a creed as old as our founding – E Pluribus Unum – out of many, we are one”.
The ceremony in New York City included six moments of silence, each timed for the events that occurred that day.
Crowds for the ceremony have diminished over the years. It was the deadliest terror attack on American soil.
President Barack Obama was scheduled to speak at an observance at the Pentagon.
A service is also planned to take place Sunday at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania.
President Obama attends a ceremony at the Pentagon commemorating the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, September 11, 2016.
As classical music drifted across the 9/11 Memorial plaza in lower Manhattan, family members and first responders slowly read the names and delivered personal memories of the nearly 3000 victims killed in the worst attack on USA soil since the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbour.
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Organizers have planned some additional music and readings to mark the milestone anniversary at ground zero. But they were keeping close to what are now traditions: moments of silence and tolling bells, an apolitical atmosphere and the hourslong reading of the names of the dead. Hundreds of people also are expected at a ceremony at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville.
