These are the deadliest attacks in history, with nearly 3,000 victims. This Monday, the United States pays tribute to these women and men who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. American Vice President Kamala Harris and the current and former mayors of New York met with the crowd near the he imposing Manhattan Memorial Museum Monday morning.
They observed minutes of silence, marking the exact moments when four planes hijacked by Islamist commandos crashed, and the two towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) collapsed in a deluge of steel and dust . President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak this afternoon during a stop in Anchorage, Alaska, returning from a trip to Vietnam.
” We will never forget “
Like every September 11, the names of the 2,753 people who died in the twin towers were read for three or four hours by members of their families, including teenagers who were not born on this disastrous September 11, 2001. “I I really wish I knew you. All of us in the family miss you. We will never forget,” said the grandson of firefighter Allan Tarasiewicz, killed, among 342 other firefighters, while intervening in the WTC towers.
At the Pentagon, very close to the federal capital Washington where an Al-Qaeda commando rushed an airliner into part of the Department of Defense building, the navy sounded a ship’s siren to honor the 184 people killed. Similarly in Pennsylvania, sirens sounded for a fourth plane crash that killed 40 passengers and crew.
Late identifications
“September 11 made America a nation at war and hundreds of thousands of people mobilized to serve our country in uniform,” said Defense Minister Lloyd Austin, referring to the two wars of Afghanistan and Iraq launched in October 2001 and March 2003 by then-President George W. Bush.
The September 11 attacks left a total of 2,977 dead (including 2,753 at the WTC) and nearly 6,300 injured according to an official report. A woman and a man killed in the twin towers were able to be identified using DNA, New York forensics announced Friday, bringing the number of people identified dead in the towers to 1,649.