Hollywood marks 25 years since 9/11 with emotional tributes and remembrance

Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks claimed nearly 3,000 lives, the American consciousness pauses once more at the edge of an absence that time has not filled. From Hollywood to Buckingham Palace, public figures and institutions offered their own forms of witness — a flag in the wind, a temple in Kyoto, a beam of light over Manhattan — each gesture a reminder that collective grief, when tended carefully, becomes a form of collective memory. The anniversary marks not only what was lost, but the ongoing human labor of ensuring it is not forgotten.