At the September 11th Memorial, remember those lost

Family members and loved ones of the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks gathered under a hazy sky at the World Trade Center site on Tuesday to honor the memories of the missing by reading their names out loud in a dark ritual repeated every year. New York on the anniversary date of the attacks.

In the shadow of the white oaks of the commemorative site marsh, family members stood on two glass podiums and read the names of 2,983 men, women and children killed in the 2001 World Trade Center bombings. at the Pentagon and aboard the Flight. 93. Those who died in the attack on the World Trade Center on 26 February 1993.

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Behind their voices, the sound of water fell in the commemorative pools. Six times – twice to mark the moments when each plane struck the towers, twice to mark the moment each turn fell and to mark the moments of the attacks on the Pentagon and flight 93 – silence honored.

At 8:42 am, a guard of honor composed of representatives of the New York Police Department, the Fire Department and the Port Authority Police Service walked on the podium waving a large American flag . At 8:46, the first moment of silence echoed to mark the first plane crashing in the north tower. The reading of the names, which would take more than three hours to finish, has begun.

After each group of names, readers offered personal words of remembrance. "To my nephew and friend, firefighter Peter J. Carroll, we all love you and miss you, especially your smile," said Charles Guigno.

"My husband, Benjamin Keefe Clark, you will always be our hero, you will always be loved, you will always be missed," said La-Shawn Clark. "We thank you for the legacy and foundation that you have established." She explained how her husband was a chef who attempted to transport a paraplegic woman from the 88th floor. "He never came out, but he will always be our hero."

A man, Nicolas Haros, who lost his mother, Frances Haros, took advantage of his time to call politicians and political commentators to stop using September 11 to criticize each other. He was among several speakers who spoke of the continuing number of attacks against survivors, family members and emergency medical workers.

"Please, stop using the bones and ashes of our loved ones as props in your political theater," Mr. Haros said. "Their lives, sacrifices and deaths are worth a lot more. Do not trivialize them, or us. It hurts."