Watch: 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony Unites Families In NYC

LOWER MANHATTAN, NY — Every year they come, fulfilling an honor to the dead that never gets easier. The families of nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11 will gather near Ground Zero Wednesday to read the names of the fallen as they have done now for 18 years.

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum ceremony is open only to family members of the victims, but all can join the somber memorial live online or on Facebook.

The program will begin at 8:46 a.m., the time that Flight 11 struck the north tower of the World Trade Center in 2001. Bells will toll at houses of worship across the city to mark the moment.

The reading of the names will continue through the morning, interspersed with more moments of silence to remember when planes struck the WTC’s south tower and the Pentagon, when the north and south towers fell, and when Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania.

All told, the names of 2,983 men, women and children who were killed on 9/11 at the World Trade Center site, the Pentagon and on Flight 93 will be read aloud, together with those who died in the Feb. 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

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