Christine Munson, whose mother, Theresa, died in the south tower on Sept. Outside the Pentagon early Saturday, guests walked through an aisle lined with flags, trickling into rows of white chairs near where two fire trucks from the Arlington County Fire Department displayed a large American flag. Near the front, Richard Keller and his wife honored the memory of his son, Chandler Keller.
Keller, 29 at the time of the attacks, died onboard the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 departing Dulles to Los Angeles. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin began his remarks by acknowledging the pain those in attendance bear "in ordinary moments of absence, in quiet minutes that can seem to stretch off for hours.
Bush spoke of the moment people across the U. Saturday's ceremony at the Flight 93 National Memorial included a reading of the names of each person who died, followed by the tolls of the Bells of Remembrance. Vice President Kamala Harris spoke of the hard times the families of those on Flight 93 have faced, and how they must remember their faces on every birthday and every time they tuck in their kids.
Families held photos of loved ones who died in the attack as flowers and flags were placed near their names on the Mmemorial. Search Search. Home United States U. Africa 54 - November 11, VOA Africa Listen live.
VOA Newscasts Latest program. VOA Newscasts. Previous Next. Leslie Bonilla. Less than 15 minutes after the terrorists struck the nerve center of the U. The structural steel of the skyscraper, built to withstand winds in excess of miles per hour and a large conventional fire, could not withstand the tremendous heat generated by the burning jet fuel. At a. Only six people in the World Trade Center towers at the time of their collapse survived.
Almost 10, others were treated for injuries, many severe. Because the plane had been delayed in taking off, passengers on board learned of events in New York and Washington via cell phone and Airfone calls to the ground. Knowing that the aircraft was not returning to an airport as the hijackers claimed, a group of passengers and flight attendants planned an insurrection. One of the passengers, Thomas Burnett, Jr. I love you, honey.
Sandy Bradshaw, a flight attendant, called her husband and explained that she had slipped into a galley and was filling pitchers with boiling water. The passengers fought the four hijackers and are suspected to have attacked the cockpit with a fire extinguisher. The plane then flipped over and sped toward the ground at upwards of miles per hour, crashing in a rural field near Shanksville in western Pennsylvania at a. All 44 people aboard were killed.
Its intended target is not known, but theories include the White House , the U. Capitol, the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland or one of several nuclear power plants along the eastern seaboard.
Citizens of 78 countries died in New York, Washington, D. At the World Trade Center, 2, died after the two planes slammed into the twin towers. That figure includes firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York City police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers who were struggling to complete an evacuation of the buildings and save the office workers trapped on higher floors. At the Pentagon, people were killed, including 64 on American Airlines Flight 77, the airliner that struck the building.
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