- Title: USA-SEPT. 11/BELL OF HOPE "Bell of Hope" rings for the victims of 9/11
- Date: 11th September 2015
- Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 11, 2015) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** PAN FROM ST PAUL'S CHAPEL BANNER TO ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER MAN SHAKES HIS HEAD AND LEAVES COURTYARD OF CHAPEL BEFORE CEREMONY WILLIAM LUPFER, RECTOR OF TRINITY CHURCH RINGS BELL OF HOPE WITH TRADITIONAL FIREFIGHTERS' SALUTE TO THE FALLEN OF "FOUR FIVES" WOMAN ATTENDING CEREMONY PAN OF ATTENDEES AS THEY RECITE THE PRAYER OF ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI VARIOUS OF THE INSCRIPTION OF THE BELL OF HOPE PAN FROM ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER TO ST PAUL'S CHAPEL
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- Story Text: An overcast Friday (September 11th) greeted relatives who gathered to commemorate nearly 3,000 people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and outside Washington D.C. 14 years ago, when airliners hijacked by al Qaeda militants brought death, mayhem and destruction.
Across the street from Ground Zero at the 18th century St Paul's Chapel, which was remarkably unscathed by the collapse of the Twin Towers, the Bell of Hope tolled a traditional firefighter's salute of "four fives" at 8:46est (1246gmt) to mark the moment the first plane struck the North tower.
The bell was a gift to New York City in 2002 from the city of London and has been rung every year since and has also been sounded in solidarity with victims elsewhere.
The ringing of the Bell of Hope comes an hour before a memorial ceremony across the street at Ground Zero where relatives of the victims read their names in a solemn and poignantly familiar pattern. Emblematic of the generations affected, children who were not old enough to remember their late relatives or had yet to meet them participated in the roll call.
They stood at the empty footprint of the World Trade Center Twin Towers, toppled by two hijacked airliners on that clear, sunny morning in 2001.
Hijackers crashed two other commercial jets into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
The New York ceremony, where politicians past and present mixed with families but gave no speeches, was punctuated by moments of silence to mark the times when each of the four planes crashed and the towers fell.
Despite the memorial services, the buzz of increased commerce from new residential and business towers has returned a large degree of normalcy to the area, known after the attacks as Ground Zero.
The day also honors those who were killed in 1993, when a car bomb tore through one of the parking garage of one of the towers.
Next to the 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site where the Twin Towers stood is the newly opened 1 World Trade Center, the tallest skyscraper in the Western hemisphere.
The first plane slammed into the North tower at 8:46 a.m., followed by a second plane hitting the South tower at 9:03 a.m. Within two hours, both towers had collapsed, engulfing lower Manhattan in acrid dust and smoke and debris that burned for days. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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