Americans honour the fallen on 20th anniversary of 9/11 – MENAFN.COM

Americans honour the fallen on 20th anniversary of 9/11 – MENAFN.COM

US former president Barack Obama, former first lady Michelle Obama, President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg attend the annual September 11 commemoration ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York City yesterday. (MENAFN - Gulf Times) Twenty years after hijackers slammed airplanes into New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon outside Washington, Americans came together yesterday to remember the nearly 3, 000 killed on Sept 11, 2001, and reflect on how the attacks reshaped society and tipped the country into an intractable war. As a first responder struck a silver bell, the ceremony at the Sept 11 Memorial in lower Manhattan began with a moment of silence at 8:46am EDT (1246 GMT), the exact time the first of two planes flew into the World Trade Center's twin towers. President Joe Biden was on hand, his head bowed. Mike Low, the first speaker of the day, described the"unbearable sorrow" caused by the death of his daughter, Sara, a flight attendant on the airliner that hit the North Tower. "My memory goes back to that terrible day when it felt like an evil specter had descended on our