The 9/11 Memorial will officially open on Septtember 11 with a ceremony for victims’ family members at Ground Zero. The Memorial will then open to the public on the next day for visitors who reserved passes in advance. On Sept. 10, Community Board 1 will hold Hands Across Lower Manhattan, an event on the West Side Waterfront.
Similarly,those who died in the attack at the Pentagon will be honored at a ceremony of 700 people, including family members of the deceased and members of the military. It will take place at the Pentagon Memorial, which opened in 2008 with the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
Nearly 3,000 people died in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.
At around 9 am in New York, when the first plane crash into the south tower of World Trade Center as workers were streaming into the building. It opened a huge hole near the top of the building. Two hours later, the whole building collapsed on itself in a huge cloud of smoke and fire.
The second plane ploughed into the second of the twin towers, exploding in a fireball 18 minutes after the first crash. That building caved in about an hour after the first.
Forty-five minutes later, a third plane crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, throwing people off their feet inside the building and setting off a massive fire. For Live:abclocal.go.com/wabc/livenow
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