New Yorkers mourn Sept. 11 victims on 25th anniversary
At the annual lower Manhattan ceremony for the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, victims’ family members read aloud the names of the 2,983 people killed on the site and during the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
The Friday memorial was held between the two reflecting pools where the towers once stood, beginning at 8:30 a.m. with a youth choir singing the national anthem. The four living presidents — Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton — stood in attendance with Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Vice President J.D. Vance. Notably, President Donald Trump did not attend the New York ceremony, but spoke at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, marking the second consecutive year he’s opted to appear there instead.
“It makes me so proud that my father, like all the other first responders on that day, you know, they made an oath to the city,” Leah Betso, daughter of first responder and victim of toxic exposure at the scene Jimmy Besto, told CBS News. “They came down here to do everything that they could for the survivors.”
Following the readings of the victims’ names, there are traditionally six moments of silence...