Thousands of people on Saturday attended the New York memorial service marking the 20th anniversary since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Many of those people held signs with photos of family members who were killed in the World Trade Center buildings.[Remembering to remember the World Trade Center]At 8:46 a.m., exactly two decades go, five hijackers plunged American Airlines Flight 11 above the 90th floor of the North Tower, starting the horrors that would kill almost three thousand people in New York City towers, the Pentagon, and a field outside of Shanksville, Pa.
"These 20 years have felt like both a long time and a short time, and as we recite the names of those we lost, my memory goes back to that terrible day," Mike Low,was a flight attendant on Flight 11, said before the reading of the names. "Today, this is a quiet place of memory." Family members of the attack's victims, police officers, firefighters, officials including both President Biden and former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, and many others gathered at the Ground Zero memorial, now a plaza and museum honoring those who lost their lives in the coordinated terror attacks.
The president did not speak at the Ground Zero service, but he released a video overnight to mark the occasion. He noted a close friend from Delaware who lost his son in the South Tower.Former President Bill Clinton, former First Lady Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, former First Lady Michelle Obama, President Joe Bien and First Lady Jill Biden attend the annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony.
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