Sept. 11 memorials: Here are some places to remember the victims on the 20th anniversary

After the World Trade Center Towers fell, pieces of the breached gathering were stored successful an 80,000-square-foot hangar astatine John F. Kennedy International Airport. The postulation includes alloy beams and crushed constabulary cars.

The alloy has been chopped into much than 2,000 pieces and distributed to nonprofit groups, governments and museums. Today, less than 30 pieces of debris stay successful the hangar.

Sept. 11 shook the world. Memorials person been established successful each 50 states and astatine slightest 8 countries.

The National September 11 Memorial and Museum canceled its activities past twelvemonth but volition pb the federation and satellite successful marking 2 decades since the attack.

The programme volition commencement astatine 8:30 a.m. EDT, with the archetypal infinitesimal of soundlessness observed astatine 8:46 a.m. The ceremonial connected tract volition beryllium exclusively for 9/11 household members.

At sundown, the yearly Tribute successful Light, which began successful 2001, volition erstwhile again illuminate the entity successful commemoration of the day of the attacks.

The Tribute successful Light task consists of 88 searchlights placed adjacent to the tract of the World Trade Center, creating 2 vertical columns of light.

The installation has go 1 of the signature elements of the yearly commemorations astatine the erstwhile World Trade Center site, and is disposable for a radius of up to 60 miles. It extends 4 miles into the sky.

The 2 columns of airy replicate the signifier of the Twin Towers, destroyed erstwhile al Qaeda operatives carried retired the deadliest panic onslaught successful the country’s history, sidesplitting astir 3,000 radical and injuring thousands more.

In CaliforniaCheck archetypal earlier readying to sojourn a tract owed to imaginable COVID-19 restrictions. Most memorials see WTC steel. Here are a prime fewer successful California:

•  Reflect 9/11 Memorial, Rosemead
•  Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden, Beverly Hills
•  Semper Memento, Heisler Park, Laguna Beach
• Frank Hotchkin Memorial Training Center successful Los Angeles has portion of a operation connected show successful representation of firefighters lost.
•  September 11 Memorial Plaza California Exposition successful Sacramento includes an I Beam extracted from Ground Zero. It is unfastened to the nationalist during each Cal Expo events, including the California State Fair and connected 9/11.
•  Hermosa Beach 9/11 Memorial
•  Manhattan Beach 9/11 Memorial
•  Recovering Equilibrium, astatine Los Angeles International Airport’s Theme Building. The 4 hijacked planes were primitively bound for California. One for San Francisco, 3 to Los Angeles.
•  Hayward 9/11 Memorial
•  Huntington Beach 9/11 Memorial astatine City Hall
•  Sherman Oak 9/11 Memorial  They volition beryllium holding a virtual event.
• Ronald Regan Presidential Library: A “Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of 9/11” programme with unrecorded euphony by the 562nd Air Force Band astatine 5:30 p.m., followed by remarks by retired New York Police Department serviceman Marc Manfro and keynote talker Col. (retired) David Sutherland, co-founder and president of the Center for Military and Veterans Community Services astatine 6 p.m. The room is located astatine 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley. Reservations are required.
• The Richard Nixon Library and Presidential Museum volition people the 20th day of the September 11, 2001 attacks with a commemoration ceremonial astatine 11:00 AM connected Saturday, September 11 that volition see 23 tons of wreckage from the World Trade Center arsenic its centerpiece. The alloy volition beryllium connected show successful the Nixon Library’s parking batch and stay unfastened 24 hours a time until September 18, 2021. The ceremonial is unfastened to the nationalist and registration is powerfully recommended. Admission to the Nixon Library and Museum is not included with registration.

Many cities volition person their ain observances planned. You tin find links to each metropolis successful the 4 counties below:

Orange County here.

Los Angeles County here.

Riverside County here.

San Bernardino County here.

Observe Moments of SilenceObserve a infinitesimal of soundlessness connected September 11 astatine immoderate oregon each of the pursuing times marking cardinal moments connected 9/11. Every year, the moments beneath are observed arsenic portion of the authoritative 9/11 day commemoration ceremonial held astatine the World Trade Center for victims’ families.8:46 a.m.: Hijackers deliberately crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into floors 93 done 99 of the North Tower.9:03 a.m.: Hijackers deliberately crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into floors 77 done 85 of the South Tower.9:37 a.m.: Hijackers deliberately crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon, adjacent Washington, D.C.9:59 a.m.: The South Tower collapsed.10:03 a.m.: After learning of the different attacks, passengers connected United Airlines Flight 93 launched a counterattack connected hijackers aboard their level to effort to prehend power of the aircraft. In response, the hijackers crashed the level into an bare tract adjacent Shanksville, Pennsylvania.10:28 a.m.: The North Tower collapsed, leaving the 16-acre World Trade Center tract successful ruins and collateral harm affecting each adjacent properties and streets. The rescue effort commenced immediately.

Sources: The Associated Press, Pew Research Center, The National September 11 Memorial Museum