The NYPD marked the 15th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks with a parade to honor the 23 officers it lost on September 11, 2001.
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Lead photo: Sunrise at the Pentagon prior to a ceremony to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. 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.
Tom Acquarviva’s 29-year-old son Paul was one of 658 employees of financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald who perished after the first plane struck the north tower just below where they worked on the 101st to 105th floors.
Each slide represents a major event before, during and after the attacks.
In spring 2011, the US Army’s forces raided a high-walled compound in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden, accused of being responsible for the terrorist attacks on the United States, was found.
The tribute to the victims at the Memorial Center includes a reading of the names of those who were killed in the attacks, while in the evening two beams of blue light, directed towards the sky, resemble the ruined towers of the World Trade Center.
Today is the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon and an act of nearly unparalleled heroism. At 7pm in the churchyard, a programme of words and music was held as an act of remembrance of those who died in the 9/11 attack and as a result of mass violence worldwide. In addition, death from lung cancer where at least one person was found by a coroner to have been caused by exposure to dust raised after the collapse of the World Trade Center. His office reportedly said that the former president will be attending church in Dallas and then proceed to the Dallas Cowboys home opener against the New York Giants.
At Sunday’s memorial service in NY, surviving relatives stepped to the microphones in pairs at the spot where the towers once stood.
“Which would indicate that the entire plane crashed into the side of the Pentagon…”
We’ll never forget the image of jetliners flying into the Twin Towers and the horror that followed.
One World Trade Center towers over lower Manhattan as children play basketball in New York August 26, 2015.
“There is no New Yorker who somehow evaded the pain of that day”.
Visitors make their way through the Flight 93 National Memorial before lit candles are carried to the Wall of Names in memory of the passengers and crew of Flight 93, at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. Baby, you have to listen to me carefully.
The passengers knew about the other attacks that had taken place a short time earlier. She emerged later and told reporters she was “feeling great”.
He quoted Scripture: “Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you”. “But I hope this year you will see a lot more people than previous years”. “It’s part of the aging process”, said Meehan, 73.
At the Shanksville memorial, CeeCee Lyle’s name is on a wall in her memory, along with the other people who lost their lives in the Pennsylvania field on 9/11, 2001.
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“Firefighters, we welcome you and we’re honored to pray with you on this 9/11 anniversary”.
