(AURN News) — Today marks 25 years since the Sept. 11 attacks, and the nation is pausing to remember.
Commemorations are underway at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, the Pentagon and the Flight 93 crash site near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
At Ground Zero, family members are reading the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed that day. Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden are also attending the ceremony.
This year, for the first time, organizers added a seventh moment of silence to honor the thousands who have died from 9/11-related illnesses.
At the Pentagon, an American flag was unfurled at sunrise, just as it was 25 years ago. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump attended the ceremony, where the president delivered remarks.
But much has changed in the quarter century since the attacks. A generation has grown up with no memory of that day, even as the health toll from Ground Zero continues to climb. Cancers, respiratory illnesses and other conditions linked to 9/11 exposure are still affecting survivors, first responders and others who were there.
Twenty-five years later, America still stops to remember.
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