Family members and presidents honor 9/11 victims as U.S. reflects on past 20 years

As the United States honors the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks that shattered and changed American life, commemorations and memorials were held nationwide Saturday to remember the victims and first responders.

In New York, the ceremony at Ground Zero began with the first moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. — the time Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The last moment of silence came at 10:28 a.m., in observance of the fall of the North Tower. The reading of the names of the victims, an annual tradition, concluded at about 1 p.m.

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