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Sunday, September 11, 2011

America commemorates September 11


Sunday marks the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks and despite the fear of another attack, the United States, Barack Obama in the lead, honor the memory of the nearly 3,000 people who perished in New York, Washington and Shanksville , PA.
The ceremonies began in New York at 8:40 local time (2:40 p.m. in Paris), when, ten years ago, the hijackers threw an American Airlines Boeing 767 in the north tower of World Trade Center.
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After his arrival, President Barack Obama visited the northern basin of the Memorial, where was the north tower of World Trade Center. He walked hand in hand with his wife Michelle, along with George W. Bush, President at the time of the attacks, and his wife Laura.
In a surreal silence, work on the site ceased in the morning and traffic was interrupted in this area of ​​Manhattan, Barack Obama has touched the victims' names engraved in stone, before greeting the family members of victims and personalities. He then took the floor (see video below), reading Psalm 46, which states that "God is our refuge and strength."
A huge crowd had gathered around the site, some waving American flags, to follow the ceremony broadcast on a giant screen and hear the reading of the names of some 3,000 people who died in the attacks. The families of the victims wore T-shirts bearing the image of the fallen and brought with them flowers, photos and flags to commemorate the attacks.
The family then attended the inauguration of the memorial of the Sept. 11, finally completed after five years of work. This landscaped area of ​​three hectares, planted with over 200 oak trees, has two large pools with waterfalls, carved to the exact spot where stood the twin towers. The name of each death is recorded on the curbs.
As each anniversary of the attacks in New York, four moments of silence should mark during the day, the times when two airliners struck the WTC towers, and the time at which they collapsed. Similar moments of silence were also planned in the Pentagon and in the field of Pennsylvania, Shanksville, where Flight 93 crashed American Airlines, killing all 40 passengers and crew and the four pirates of the air.
U.S. President and his wife are expected on site at noon (18 hours in Paris), to lay a wreath at the new memorial to the victims. Barack Obama plans must then go to the Pentagon in suburban Washington, for there, too, lay a wreath in memory of victims of the crash of Flight 77. In the evening he will attend a "Concert for Hope" in Washington where he will deliver a speech.

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