(11 Sep 2024)
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New York – 11 September 2024
1. People walking and carrying flowers to memorial
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Gena Valle, family member:
"I’m to hear remember my cousin (unintelligible). She was in the second tower. She worked for an insurance company. A mother, a daughter, a sister, a cousin, a beautiful soul."
3. Valle and others at the memorial
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Malone, retired firefighter:
"Today is a bittersweet day for a lot of members, a lot of families. Just being down here, like I was saying before, is uh, I just feel that coming down here the spirits of all those who perished that day are here."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Lori Moore-Merrell, U.S. Fire Administrator:
"I was in Washington, D.C. I worked for the International Association of Firefighters, the labor organization that represent all the New York firefighters. And so we were in the office. We were watching as the second plane hit and then as the two towers came down we knew there would be hundreds. We weren’t sure how many in the towers, but we knew there would be a lot. And so we just prepared at that time for how we might support FDNY and the families."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Craig Hannan, family member:
"For me no, it’s the same. It’s surreal. I can’t imagine. I just picture driving to work, I worked in Garden City at the time, looking up at the blue sky saying ‘What a beautiful day,’ and getting to the office and people talking about a plane hitting the Trade Center. I knew my brother worked down there. I called up my mother. He had actually gone to work early that day. He was supposed to be in training in midtown Manhattan. Switched with a girl that he worked with and he went in early because he was off a couple of days just after Labor Day. So, unfortunately he was at the wrong place at the wrong time, but today is, every day, every 9/11 is the same to me."
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STORYLINE:
The U.S. remembered the lives taken and those reshaped by 9/11, marking an anniversary laced with presidential campaign politics as President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris stood together Wednesday at ground zero.
Sept. 11 — the date when hijacked plane attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in 2001 — falls in the thick of the presidential election season every four years, and it comes at an especially pointed moment this time. The anniversary ceremony at the World Trade Center brought Harris and Trump, the Democratic and Republican nominees, face-to-face just hours after their first-ever debate Tuesday night.
At the memorial Wednesday morning, family members of some victims gathered to remember their loved ones. Gena Valle brought a photo of her cousin who worked in the second of the two towers that fell.
"She was in the second tower. She worked for the insurance company. A mother, a daughter, a sister, a cousin, a beautiful soul," Valle said.
The attacks killed 2,977 people and left thousands of bereaved relatives and scarred survivors. The planes carved a gash in the Pentagon, the U.S. military headquarters, and brought down the trade center’s twin towers, which were among the world’s tallest buildings.
The catastrophe also altered U.S. foreign policy, domestic security practices and the mindset of many Americans who had not previously felt vulnerable to attacks by foreign extremists.
AP Video shot by Joe Frederick
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