Annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony in NYC honors victims killed 24 years ago
NEW YORK (WABC) -- The National September 11 Memorial & Museum held its annual commemoration ceremony to observe the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, honoring the 2,983 men, women, and children killed in the 2001 attacks at the World Trade Center site, the Pentagon, aboard Flight 93, and those killed in the February 26, 1993, World Trade Center bombing.
The September 11 commemoration is for family members of the victims, who are invited to participate in the reading of the names.
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The ceremony took place on the Memorial Plaza.
As always, throughout the ceremony, six moments of silence were observed, acknowledging when each of the World Trade Center towers was struck and fell, and the times corresponding to the attack on the Pentagon and the crash of United Airlines Flight 93.
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A complete list of the names of the 2,983 victims of the 2001 attacks at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and on Flight 93, along with the victims of the 1993 WTC bombing that are inscribed on the Memorial can be found on the memorial's website.
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