In New York, relatives of the victims read their names in a solemn and poignantly familiar pattern.
Emblematic of the generations affected, children who were not old enough to remember their late relatives or had yet to meet them participated in the roll call.
They stood at the empty footprint of the World Trade Center Twin Towers, toppled by two hijacked airliners on that clear, sunny morning in 2001.
Hijackers crashed two other commercial jets into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
The New York ceremony punctuated by moments of silence to mark the times when each of the four planes crashed and the towers fell.
In Washington, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, joined by staff, bowed their heads for a brief moment of silence on the south lawn of the White House to mark the anniversary.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter led a remembrance ceremony for relatives of those killed at the Pentagon.
Relatives of the 40 passengers and crew members who died aboard United Airlines Flight 93 gathered at the newly dedicated Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville.
The passengers are believed to have fought back against the hijackers, who crashed the plane upside down.
The first plane slammed into the North tower at 8:46 am, followed by a second plane hitting the South tower at 9:03 am.
Reuters - globaltimes.cn
11/9/15
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- US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama led a moment of silence on the White House lawn Friday to mark the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington.
The moment of
silence was observed at 8:46 a.m. (12:46 p.m. GMT), the moment when the
first passenger plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade
Center in New York after being hijacked by members of al Qaeda.
The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, at the Pentagon and aboard a hijacked airliner that went down in Pennsylvania.
The US flag over the White House flew at half mast as a few hundred people – National Security Advisor Susan Rice as well as White House chefs, gardeners and other residence staff – joined the Obamas for the ceremony.
In New York, police and the relatives of those killed at the World Trade Center began the annual reading of all the names of the victims who died at Ground Zero, now the site of the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum.
"Emotions and memories of 9/11 are with us so vividly today and always. We will #NeverForget our loved ones and first responders," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Twitter.
US security is heightened every year around this time, but Federal Bureau of Investigation chief James Comey said there were no "specific or credible threats" tied to this year's anniversary. US authorities continue to watch closely for new threats from either al Qaeda or the Islamic State group.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
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The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, at the Pentagon and aboard a hijacked airliner that went down in Pennsylvania.
The US flag over the White House flew at half mast as a few hundred people – National Security Advisor Susan Rice as well as White House chefs, gardeners and other residence staff – joined the Obamas for the ceremony.
In New York, police and the relatives of those killed at the World Trade Center began the annual reading of all the names of the victims who died at Ground Zero, now the site of the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum.
"Emotions and memories of 9/11 are with us so vividly today and always. We will #NeverForget our loved ones and first responders," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Twitter.
US security is heightened every year around this time, but Federal Bureau of Investigation chief James Comey said there were no "specific or credible threats" tied to this year's anniversary. US authorities continue to watch closely for new threats from either al Qaeda or the Islamic State group.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
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