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Saturday 12 September

On Sept. 11 Anniversary, Appeals to Remember as Time Passes

JONATHAN LEMIRE who lost his son, Paul Ac-
JENNIFER PELTZ quaviva, a systems analyst
Associated Press who died in the trade cen-
NEW YORK (AP) — Sept. 11 ter’s north tower. Carrying
victims’ relatives marked photos emblazoned with
the anniversary of the terror the names of their loved
attacks Friday in a subdued ones, victims’ relatives
gathering at ground zero, prayed for peace, praised
saying their determination first responders and the
to commemorate their loss armed forces and, mostly,
publicly hadn’t dimmed sent personal messages of
even as 14 years have enduring loss and remem-
passed and crowds at the brance to loved ones some
ceremony have thinned. had never even had the
Hundreds of victims’ chance to know.
relatives — fewer than “I wish I could meet you,”
thronged the observances Valerie Arnold said to the
in their early years — gath- memory of her uncle, fire-

A message memorializing a son is wrapped around a flag at the Ohio Statehouse lawn on
Friday, Sept. 11, 2015 in Columbus, Ohio. The Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board, which
oversees the Statehouse grounds, says the flags represent the lives lost during the 2001 attacks.

(Eric Albrecht/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

At the Pentagon Memorial a K-9 officer pauses as he looks anniversary with a visit to joining in remembrances for coming in,” National Sept.
toward the U.S. flag as it is draped on the side of the Pentagon Fort Meade, Maryland, in victims’ relatives and Penta- 11 Memorial and Museum
where the building was attacked on September 11th in 2001, recognition of the military’s gon employees. An estimat- President Joe Daniels said
on the 14th anniversary of the attack, Friday Sept. 11, 2015, in work to protect the country. ed 20,000 people flocked this week. While the memo-
Washington. The Flight 93 National Me- to the memorial plaza on rial will still be reserved for
morial near Shanksville in the evening of Sept. 11 last victims’ relatives and other
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) western Pennsylvania was year, the first year the pub- invitees during the morning
marking the completion lic was able to visit on the ceremony, afterward, “the
ered for what has become fighter Michael Boyle, who of its visitor center, which anniversary. The plaza was general public that wants
a tradition of tolling bells, was off-duty but responded opened to the public Thurs- to open three hours ear- to come and pay their re-
moments of silence and to the attacks on Sept. 11, day. At the Pentagon, De- lier after the anniversary spects on this most sacred
the reading of the names 2001, before she was born. fense Secretary Ash Carter ceremony. “When we did ground should be let in as
of the nearly 3,000 people In Washington, President and other officials were open it up, it was just like life soon as possible.”q
killed in the terror strikes at Barack Obama and first
the World Trade Center, the lady Michelle Obama
Pentagon and a field near stepped out of the White
Shanksville, Pennsylvania. House at 8:46 a.m. — when
“We come every year. The the first plane hit the north
crowds get smaller, but we tower — to observe a mo-
want to be here. As long as ment of silence. Later Fri-
I’m breathing, I’ll be here,” day, President Obama was
said Tom Acquaviva, 81, scheduled to observe the

Victims’ family members look on during a ceremony at the
World Trade Center site in New York on Friday, Sept. 11, 2015.
Hundreds of victims’ relatives gathered for what has become
a tradition of tolling bells, moments of silence and the reading
of the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror
strikes at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field near
Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

(AP Photo/Bryan R. Smith)