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(REUTERS) Americans commemorated the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on Sunday with the recital of the names of the dead, tolling church bells and a tribute in lights at the site where New York City’s massive twin towers collapsed. The names of the 2,983 victims were read slowly by relatives as classical music played during a ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial plaza in lower Manhattan with pauses for six moments of […]
Ellen Aguilar of Eagle News New Jersey Bureau revisits the Liberty State Park in Jersey City which played a big part after the September 11 attacks. It was here where many of the affected New York City residents were brought after the Twin Towers went down in 2001. First responders crossed the Hudson River to ferry people from New York City to New Jersey for safety.
Eagle News’ Keith Bethea from the New Jersey Bureau reports on security on the eve of the 15th year Anniversary of the World Trade Center bombing — from one of the major hubs in the US close to New York City — Newark Liberty International Airport. He reports that there were maintenance security checks done on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary by federal state and local agencies to ensure tight security in the area. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohYggc286M4&feature=youtu.be
NEW JERSEY, United States — Eagle News revisits the Empty Sky Memorial, the official New Jersey September 11 memorial to the state’s victims of the September 11 attacks, on Saturday (September 10, 2016) a day before the 15th anniversary of the deadly attacks that killed 746 New Jersey residents at the World Trade Center in 1993. Located in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, it was dedicated for the 746 New Jersey victims whose names are etched […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The United States marks the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Sunday with solemn services to commemorate the victims of the deadliest terror strikes on US soil, which changed the world forever. Nearly 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001 when 19 Al-Qaeda suicide bombers hijacked four passenger jets, crashing them into the Twin Towers in New York, the Pentagon in Washington and a field in […]
(Reuters) — An overcast Friday (September 11) greeted relatives who gathered at the World Trade Center site to commemorate nearly 3,000 people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and outside Washington 14 years ago, when airliners hijacked by al Qaeda militants brought death, mayhem and destruction. Relatives of the victims read their names in a solemn and poignantly familiar pattern. Emblematic of the generations affected, children who were not old […]
