New York, United States.
New York City began commemorating the 9/11 attacks on Saturday with a solemn ceremony at the site of the Twin Towers, which was attended by some of the relatives of nearly 3,000 victims. , as well as the President of the United States, Joe Biden, and the former governors barack Obama i Bill Clinton.
On a sunny morning, like the one on September 11, 2001, the ceremony began with a parade of representatives of the emergency services carrying an American flag, after which the Young People’s Chorus of New York he sang the national anthem.
After a moment of silence at 08.46 local time (12.46 GMT), when the first plane hit one of the towers, Mike Low, father of one of the flight attendants flying in it, delivered a short speech, which marked the beginning of the reading of the names of the victims.
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“As we recite the names of those we lost, our memory goes back to that terrible day, when we felt that an evil specter had descended upon the world, but it was also a time when many people acted beyond the ordinary.” , said Low.
Although hundreds of relatives were present at the ceremony, which showed photos of their loved ones, some of the relatives of the victims were unable to access the act, in which there were strong security measures.
Next to them, hundreds more people gathered around the 9/11 memorial, Many of them carrying red roses and American flags as a sign of respect for the victims
At the ceremony, in which singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen performed his song “I’ll See You in My Dreams”, they were marked by moments of silence from the moments when three of the planes that went be kidnapped on September 11 they hit the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, and a quarter fell on an esplanade in Pennsylvania.
At the event, which was attended by her husbands the former first ladies of the United States Hillary Clinton i Michelle Obama, The times when the Twin Towers fell in New York were also remembered.
Law enforcement deployed significant security measures, with the presence throughout the big apple of thousands of bomb detection agents and units, while accesses to subway mouths near Zero Zone were taken by armed police.