Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and reshaped the American world, the nation gathered once more at its memorials — in New York, at the Pentagon, and in quieter corners of the country — to speak the names of the dead and sit with what remains. The anniversary marks not only a catastrophe but a threshold: a generation has now grown up knowing only the world that day created. To return annually to these ceremonies is to ask, without always answering, what a people owes to its wounds and to those who did not survive them.
Nation Marks 25 Years Since Sept. 11 Attacks With Solemn Ceremonies
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the September 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon.