How Will New York City Commemorate 9/11 At Ground Zero Friday?
NEW YORK — Bagpipes and drums sounded across Ground Zero Friday in New York as the city commemorated the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The melancholy music mingled with rain as the crowd of mourners, police, firefighters, servicemen and officials, including Vice President Joseph Biden, gathered for the annual ceremony. The impact of two hijacked airliners and collapse of the Twin Towers killed 2,752 people on September 11, 2001. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the day should also be remembered for the many who volunteered to help in the aftermath of the attack, including the 343 firefighters who died in the collapsing Twin Towers. “Their compassion and selfless acts are etched in our city’s history,” Bloomberg said. As every year, relatives of the dead and other volunteers took turns to read out the names of all the dead in a ritual carried live on local television. Moments of silence were observed at the exact times the two planes struck and the towers
NEW YORK: Bagpipes and drums sounded across Ground Zero on Friday in New York as the city commemorated the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The melancholy music mingled with rain as the crowd of mourners, police, firefighters, servicemen and officials, including Vice President Joseph Biden, gathered for the annual ceremony. The impact of two hijacked airliners and collapse of the Twin Towers killed 2,752 people on September 11, 2001. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the day should also be remembered for the many who volunteered to help in the aftermath of the attack, including the 343 firefighters who died in the collapsing Twin Towers. “Their compassion and selfless acts are etched in our city’s history,” Bloomberg said. As every year, relatives of the dead and other volunteers took turns to read out the names of all the dead in a ritual carried live on local television. Moments of silence were observed at the exact times the two planes struck and the towe
