September 11, 2024 Ceremony: Full coverage of the annual commemoration of the victims of 9/11

NEW YORK (WABC) — The National September 11 Memorial & Museum hosts its annual commemoration ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, honoring the 2,983 men, women and children who died in the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center site, the Pentagon, aboard Flight 93, and those who died in the World Trade Center bombing on February 26, 1993.

The commemoration on Wednesday 11 September is for relatives of the victims. This year, as always, they are invited to participate in the reading of the names.

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Organizers said the main focus of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum continues the annual remembrance ceremony where family members gather at Memorial Plaza to remember their loved ones.

During the ceremony, six moments of silence are observed to commemorate the moments when the World Trade Center towers were hit and collapsed, and the times when the Pentagon was attacked and United Airlines Flight 93 crashed.

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Eyewitness News will be reporting live from the memorial for the victims. Bill Ritter will once again anchor our coverage on Channel 7 and streaming on all of our ABC7NY platforms beginning at 8:25 a.m.

PROGRAM OF EVENTS
-08:30 am – Program starts
– 08:46 AM – Moment of Silence (commemorating the time AA Flight 11 hit the North Tower)
-Families of victims of the 2001 and 1993 attacks begin reading the names in pairs.
-09:03 – Moment of silence (observing the time UA Flight 175 hit the South Tower)
– The reading of names continues
-09:37 AM – Moment of Silence (commemorating the time AA Flight 77 hit the Pentagon)
– The reading of names continues
-09:59 – Moment of silence (observance of the time of the fall of the South Tower)
– The reading of names continues
-10:03 a.m. – Moment of silence (in observance of the time UA Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania)
– The reading of names continues
-10:28 am – Moment of silence (observance of the time of the fall of the North Tower)
-Reading names continues until the conclusion

A complete list of the names of the 2,983 victims of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Flight 93, along with the victims of the 1993 WTC bombing who are inscribed on the memorial, can be found on the memorial’s website.

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