America remembers 9/11, seven years later
Published: September 11, 2008
At 8:46 a.m., President Bush will mark seven years since the 9/11 attacks with a moment of silence at the White House.
That’s the exact minute the first hijacked airplane slammed into the World Trade Center in 2001. Every year since then, Bush has stood in silence on the South Lawn to remember the nearly 3,000 people who died at the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Bush will also be on hand to dedicate a new memorial at the Pentagon.
That ceremony will include a wreath laying, music and a reading of the names of those who died on Flight 77 and inside the building.
The Pentagon memorial has 184 benches over small reflecting pools, one for each life lost.
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