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Moment of silence 91111/7/2023 But the boy took the podium to honor him. Like a growing number of those who read names at ground zero, firefighter Jimmy Riches' namesake nephew wasn't born yet when his relative died. And theoretically, everybody should remember it and, you know, take precautions and watch out," said Saloman, who lost his brother. "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 also stirred - for a time - a sense of national pride and unity for many, while subjecting Muslim Americans to years of suspicion and bigotry and engendering debate over the balance between safety and civil liberties. "Now that Al-Zawahiri 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. 11, 2022, on the 21st anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. flag at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City on Sept. Members of New York Fire Department raise a U.S. drone strike killed a key al Qaeda figure who helped plot the 9/11 attacks, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Sunday's observances, which follow a fraught milestone anniversary last year, come little more than a month after a U.S. 11 remains a point for reflection on the hijacked-plane attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, reconfigured national security policy and spurred a U.S. Victims' relatives and dignitaries also convened at the other two attack sites, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. ![]() "No matter how many years have passed, nobody can actually comprehend that what happened that very day," she added. It seems like just yesterday," Mentis said. "It's been 21 years, but it's not 21 years for us. soil.īonita Mentis set out to read victims' names at the ground zero ceremony wearing a necklace with a photo of her slain sister, Shevonne Mentis, a 25-year-old Guyanese immigrant who worked for a financial firm. 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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