Americans from first responders to former presidents spent Saturday honoring the heroes of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and mourning those who died to remember …
Americans from first responders to former presidents spent Saturday honoring the heroes of the Sept.11,2001 attacks and mourning those who died to remember the 20th anniversary of America’s darkest day. President Biden and first lady Jill Biden joined a crowd at the hallowed site where a pair of planes destroyed the World Trade Center. More than 2,753 first responders and office workers were killed in the lower Manhattan attacks. The solemn service included the traditional reading of the victims’ names for most of the five-hour ceremony. To commemorate the attacks, six moments of silence took place, starting at 8:46 a.m. That was the time al Qaeda terrorists crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Mike Low, who lost his daughter, Sara, on Sept.11,2001, spoke after a moment of silence calling the site where the World Trade Center once stood “a quiet place of memory.’ Sara Low was a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11. “History must be remembered not as numbers and a date but as the faces of ordinary people. People who looked a lot like Sara,” he said. Mr. Biden was joined by former Presidents Obama and Clinton as well as several national and New York dignitaries.
