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Somber ceremonies mark 12th anniversary of September 11 attacks
By Victoria Cavaliere and Mark Felsenthal
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON Wed Sep 11, 2013 4:58pm EDT
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A woman pauses along the edge of the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial
during a ceremony marking the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on
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1 of 20. A woman pauses along the edge of the North Pool of the 9/11
Memorial during a ceremony marking the 12th anniversary of the 9/11
attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2013.
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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bagpipes, tolling bells and a reading
of the names of the nearly 3,000 people who died when hijacked
jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a
Pennsylvania field marked the 12th anniversary of the September 11
attacks in 2001.
More than a thousand people gathered Wednesday on a hot and hazy
morning at the National September 11 Memorial plaza in Manhattan, for
the annual reading of victims' names from both the 1993 and 2001 terror
attacks on the World Trade Center.
Bagpipes and a youth choir opened the solemn proceedings, held around
two memorial pools in the footprints of the twin towers on the 16-acre
site of the former World Trade Center complex.
Many of those reading from the list of names directly addressed their
own lost loved ones in emotional tributes.
"Cathy, your brothers and sisters still miss you. All the people whose
lives you touched," said Eleanor Salter, whose daughter, Catherine
Patricia Salter, perished. "As for me, life goes on. But it would have
been really fun with you around. I miss your smile."
Gabriella Scibetta was only 4 years old, and her brother Vincent was a
baby, when their mother, Adriane Victoria Scibetta, died in the South
Tower.
"Vincent and I love and miss you, you'll never be forgotten," Scibetta
said.
In keeping with a tradition begun last year, no public officials spoke
at the New York ceremony, although former New York Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani, his successor Michael Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Raymond
Kelly, and other city and state leaders were in attendance.
In Washington's memorial service at the Pentagon, President Barack
Obama called on Americans to pray for those whose lives had been lost.
"Let us have the strength to face the threats that endure, different
though they may be from 12 years ago, so that as long as there are
those who would strike our citizens, we will stand vigilant and defend
our nation," Obama said.
The morning after a speech in which he urged Americans to support his
proposal to use military force against Syria, in retribution for
President Bashar al-Assad's poison gas attack on his own people, Obama
also reflected on the limits of force.
"Let us have the wisdom to know that, while force is at times
necessary, force alone cannot build the world we seek," Obama said.
Americans observed a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. EDT (1246 GMT), the
time American Airlines Flight 11 smashed into the North Tower and there
was a second pause at 9:03 a.m. (1303 GMT) when United Airlines Flight
175 struck the South Tower.
More moments of silence came at 9:37 a.m. (1337 GMT), when American
Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon; at 9:59 a.m. (1359 GMT) when the
South Tower collapsed; at 10:03 a.m. (1403 GMT) when United Flight 93
hit the ground near Shanksville, Pennsylvania; and at 10:28 a.m. (1428
GMT), when the North Tower fell.
Nineteen hijackers were killed in the suicide attacks, for which Osama
bin Laden and al Qaeda claimed credit, leading to the U.S. war in
Afghanistan and indirectly to the invasion of Iraq.
Twelve years later, two skyscrapers have been nearly completed on
either side of the plaza, including One World Trade Center, the tallest
building in the Western Hemisphere at a symbolic 1,776 feet, a number
chosen for the year of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
At the Flight 93 National Memorial wall in Pennsylvania, the National
Park Service's ceremony of remembrance on Wednesday included a reading
of the names of the passengers and crew, a ringing of bells, a
wreath-laying and tributes.
(Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere in New York and Mark Felsenthal in
Washington; Editing by Scott Malone, Bernadette Baum and Gunna Dickson)
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Comments (24)
Tolan wrote:
After this terrible crime why now US supports Al Quaida? Unable to take
lessons from history?
Sep 11, 2013 9:34am EDT -- Report as abuse
JackTheSnack wrote:
I still remember the moment my wife called me at home, from her work
and told me to turn on the TV. I turned it on, and just stared at the
screen, as a second plane hit the other tower. it was the most surreal
moment in my life, and I knew that everything was going to be
different, after that day.
Sep 11, 2013 9:52am EDT -- Report as abuse
USAPragmatist2 wrote:
Tolan, 1. you can not even spell Al-Qaeda 2. your claim of the USA
supporting them is so far off base it is sickening.
Sep 11, 2013 10:46am EDT -- Report as abuse
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