The 9/11 anniversary commemoration at ground zero has begun with a tolling bell and a moment of silence, exactly 20 years after the start of the deadliest terror attack on US soil.
President Joe Biden, former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, members of Congress, and other dignitaries joined a crowd of victims’ relatives Saturday on the Sept. 11 memorial plaza in New York.
The memorial stands where the World Trade Center’s twin towers were rammed and felled by hijacked planes.
Observances are also planned at the two other sites where the 9/11 conspirators crashed their hijacked jets: the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Biden is scheduled to pay respects at all three places, and former President George W. Bush is to speak at the Pennsylvania ceremony.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 11: (L-R) Former President Bill Clinton, former President Barack Obama, former First Lady Michelle Obama, President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg’s partner Diana Taylor, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Christian Gillibrand (D-NY) attend the annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum on September 11, 2021 in New York City. During the ceremony six moments of silence were held, marking when each of the World Trade Center towers was struck and fell and the times corresponding to the attack on the Pentagon and the crash of Flight 93. The nation is marking the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, when the terrorist group al-Qaeda flew hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center, Shanksville, PA and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 people. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Flowers and a photo on the inscription of the name Betty Ann Ong was an American flight attendant aboard American Airlines Flight 11, the first airplane to become hijacked during the September 11 attacks. Ong is notable as having been the first person to alert authorities to the hijackings taking place that day. 20th anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center that took place on September 11, 2001 known as 9/11 is marked with the complete removal of the US forces from Afghanistan. Memorial site of the WTC known as Ground Zero or the Pile after the September 11 attacks in Lower Manhattan in New York City with two pools the North Pool and South Pool next to the memorial park and museum with the names appearing on the panels around the pool. New York City, NY, USA on January 25, 2020 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
People visitng the memorial. 20th anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center that took place on September 11, 2001 known as 9/11 is marked with the complete removal of the US forces from Afghanistan. Memorial site of the WTC known as Ground Zero or the Pile after the September 11 attacks in Lower Manhattan in New York City with two pools the North Pool and South Pool next to the memorial park and museum with the names appearing on the panels around the pool. New York City, NY, USA on January 25, 2020 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 11: Former president Barack Obama, former First Lady Michelle Obama, President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden arrive for the annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum on September 11, 2021 in New York City. During the ceremony, six moments of silence were held, marking when each of the World Trade Center towers was struck and fell and the times corresponding to the attack on the Pentagon and the crash of Flight 93. The nation is marking the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, when the terrorist group al-Qaeda flew hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center, Shanksville, PA and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 people. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
US flags on the names of the victims against the sun with flowers on the memorial. 20th anniversary of the attack at the World Trade Center that took place on September 11, 2001 known as 9/11 is marked with the complete removal of the US forces from Afghanistan. Memorial site of the WTC known as Ground Zero or the Pile after the September 11 attacks in Lower Manhattan in New York City with two pools the North Pool and South Pool next to the memorial park and museum with the names appearing on the panels around the pool. New York City, NY, USA on January 25, 2020 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 11: Firefighters gather in lower Manhattan near Ground Zero as the city commemorates the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2021 in New York City. The nation is marking the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, when the terrorist group al-Qaeda flew hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center, Shanksville, PA and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 people. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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