9/11 Ceremony New York City Schedule, Live Stream, Details: Commemoration Held at Ground Zero on Monday
This year, the world is commemorating the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, which claimed thousands of lives in New York City, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania. In line with this, a ceremony will be held at ground zero on Monday, Sept. 11.
The memorial ceremony will be held at the 9/11 Memorial plaza found at the World Trade Center site in New York City. The event honors the estimated 2,983 people who died because of the terrorists who hijacked commercial planes and flew them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field located in Pennsylvania. It will also serve to remember the lost lives during the bombing of the Twin Towers that occurred on Feb. 23, 1993.
To give way to the event, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum will be closed to the public on Monday and will be open only to the families of the victims in the said terrorist attacks. The actual ceremony started at 8:46 a.m. EDT and will end at 12:30 p.m., but those who will not be allowed to enter the premises may still join the commemoration as it will be streamed live on the official website of the museum.
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According to reports, the ceremony includes six moments of silence, two of which to mark the times that each plane hit the Twin Towers, another two to remember the times the two towers fell, and the last two to signify the attacks on the Pentagon and on Flight 93. The six pauses happened at 8:46 a.m., 9:03 a.m., 9:37 a.m., 9:59 a.m., 10:03 a.m., and 10:28 a.m.
At night, a "Tribute in Light" will serve to commemorate the attacks through a public art installation that will happen across the New York City night sky. Two beams of light will be shot into the sky as a tribute and to symbolize the Twin Towers.
