Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
A day like today in 2001 happened one of the worst attacks in history in the United States perpetrated by the terrorist group Al Qaeda.
About three thousand people were killed after Islamic fundamentalists attacked the Twin Towers of New York and the Pentagon, a Washington, On which three passenger planes that had previously been hijacked crashed.
20 years have passed since then and the memories of that moment have been mostly marked in the minds of the relatives of the victims, but also of many who were spectators through the news.
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Newspaper LA PREMSA consulted, through social networks, our compatriots how they remember the moment of this terrible event.
One of our readers, Rosa de Raudales, explained that she was at work and when she found out she couldn’t help but shed tears. victims.
“I was in the office and I started to cry when I saw people throwing themselves out the windows and then I was shocked to see how the towers fell. It was very sad to know that so many people died that way. “.
Carlos Hernández also reported that he found out when he was at his workplace, a maquila in the free zone. “I was listening to a local station, the voice of the Atlantic, which was interrupting its programming to announce at this time an accident in New York, The speaker was Geovanni Zaldivar. How tremendous to remember that, ”he shared.
This event was traumatic for millions of people around the world. This was the case of Honduran Lesly Arías, a resident of the United States, who detailed that she had traveled to see relatives when the attack took place.
“I traveled from California a North Carolina to visit my mother and sisters, but after such a fact I could no longer return by plane. “
Amid fear and pain, days later, there were rumors of bombings on flights traveling from the United States to Honduras.
“I worked as a ramp assistant at the airport Ramón Villeda Morales. I arrived early. I hadn’t seen the news so I was surprised not to see flight entry. Then I found out about the horrible news from my classmates. Days later someone made a very distasteful joke they called an airline saying they had placed an explosive and security evacuated us all. They were minutes of anxiety and horror. In the end, thank God, it wasn’t like that, “Sabine Aguilar wrote.
This Saturday in the city of New York acts of commemoration of the 9/11 attacks were held with a solemn ceremony at the site of the Twin Towers, which was attended by some of the relatives of the nearly 3,000 victims, as well as the President of the States United, Joe Biden, and former leaders Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
On a sunny morning, such as 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.
Law enforcement deployed important 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.