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President Barack Obama, and Americans all over the world commemorated the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Thursday by observing moments of silence for the thousands killed that day at New York City’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field when 19 hijackers attacked United States soil.
Relatives of the vicitims began slowly reciting the nearly 3,000 names at a ceremony in lower Manhattan, from Gordon Aamoth Jr. to Igor Zukelman.
Readers would occasionally pause as a silver bell was rung to mark the exact times when each of the four planes hijacked by al Qaeda militants crashed at the three sites and when each of the World Trade Center’s twin towers collapsed. With each bell, a moment of silence was observed.
“Thirteen years after small, hateful minds conspired to break us, America stands tall and America stands proud,” Obama said.
Beacon Media and our extended family remembers the horror of that day. Our sincere thoughts and prayers continue to go to everyone affected by this attack.
