Nikita Shah wore a T-shirt that bore the de facto epigraph of the annual commemoration - "never forget" - and the name of her father, Jayesh Shah. "I'm here today to represent generation 9/12, those who never experienced 9/11 but still suffer the aftermath of it," Walsh-DiMarzio said. But she took the podium to honor her grandmother, Barbara Walsh. Like a growing number of readers, Brooke Walsh-DiMarzio wasn't born yet when her relative died. The observance centers, instead, on relatives reading aloud the names of the dead. And theoretically, everybody should remember it and, you know, take precautions and watch out," said Saloman, who lost his brother, Wayne Saloman.īy tradition, no political figures speak at the ground zero ceremony. "It was a terrorist attack against our country that day. In ways both subtle and plain, the aftermath of 9/11 ripples through American politics and public life to this day.īut like some other victims' relatives, Jay Saloman fears that Americans' consciousness of 9/11 is receding. 11 attacks stirred - for a time - a sense of national pride and unity for many, while also subjecting Muslim Americans to years of suspicion and bigotry and engendering debate over the balance between safety and civil liberties. An attorney for one of Mohammed's co-defendants this week confirmed ongoing negotiations toward a potential agreement to avoid a trial and impose lesser but still lengthy sentences. The self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, still awaits a long-postponed military tribunal. "Now that al-Zawahri is gone, at least we're continuing to get that justice," Roldan said. Pierre Roldan, who lost his cousin Carlos Lillo, a paramedic, said "we had some form of justice" when a U.S. drone strike killed a key al-Qaida figure who helped plot 9/11, Ayman al-Zawahri. Sunday's observances came little more than a month after a U.S. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people, reconfigured national security policy and spurred a U.S. The fourth plane was headed for Washington but crashed near Shanksville after crew members and passengers tried to storm the cockpit. 11, 2001, conspirators from the al-Qaida Muslim militant group seized control of jets to use them as passenger-filled missiles, hitting the trade center's twin towers and the Pentagon. would continue working to root out terrorist plots and called on Americans to stand up for "the very democracy that guarantees the right to freedom that those terrorists on 9/11 sought to bury in the burning fire, smoke and ash." First lady Jill Biden spoke at the third attack site, a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It seems like just yesterday," she said before reading victims' names at the World Trade Center to a crowd that included Vice President Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff.Īt the Pentagon, which also was targeted on 9/11, President Joe Biden vowed that the U.S. "It's been 21 years, but it's not 21 years for us. The loss still felt immediate to Bonita Mentis, who wore a necklace with a photo of her slain sister, Shevonne Mentis. Americans remembered 9/11 on Sunday with tear-choked tributes and pleas to "never forget," 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S.
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