NEW YORK — Bells have been rung and the names of practically 3,000 folks have been learn out in somber ceremonies in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on Monday to mark the twenty second anniversary of the Al-Qaeda assault on the United States.
Vice President Kamala Harris and present and former mayors of New York joined victims’ households on the 9/11 memorial on the positioning of the World Trade Center twin towers introduced down by two plane flown by hijackers.
The names of the greater than 2,600 who died in New York have been learn out by relations and younger family members not alive on the time of the assault.
“I wish I had a chance to really know you. Everyone in the family misses you. We will never forget,” stated the grandson of firefighter Allan Tarasiewicz, who was killed aged 45 throughout rescue operations on the World Trade Center.
At the Pentagon in Washington, the place the attackers plunged a 3rd plane into the headquarters of the US navy, a sailor rang a ship’s bell for every of the 184 killed there.
Family members of a sufferer go to the Pentagon Memorial on the twenty second anniversary of September 11, 2001 assaults, in Washington, DC on September 11, 2023. REUTERS/ Kevin Lamarque
And in western Pennsylvania, the place a fourth hijacked airplane apparently heading towards Washington was pressured to crash, bells have been rung for every of the 40 passengers and crew that died.
“September 11 made America a nation at war, and hundreds of thousands stepped up to serve our country in uniform,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stated on the Pentagon ceremony.
“I know that it aches to remember this milestone year after year…The men and women of the Department of Defense will always remember.”
Across New York City, in Congress and elsewhere, a second of silence was held to mark the assault, plotted by Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who was discovered and killed practically a decade later by US Navy Seals in a raid on his hideout in Pakistan.
President Joe Biden, who was touring again from a go to to Vietnam, was to mark the anniversary later Monday from a US navy base in Anchorage, Alaska. — Agence France-Presse
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