Tributes to those killed September 11, 2001 began at 8:46 a.m. Wednesday, the hour at which a hijacked plane struck the north tower of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. President Obama, Vice President Biden and their wives all observed a moment of silence at the White House in honor of the dead. Across the country, Americans joined in the remembrance and commemorated the 12th anniversary of the attacks that left 2,977 people dead. See more Photos below:
FDNY
Firefighter Mike Bellantoni of New York prepares a memento at the
Firefighter’s Memorial adjacent to the World Trade Center Wednesday,
Sept. 11, 2013 before the start of the official ceremonies at the 9/11
Memorial nearby. (Photo by Craig Ruttle/AP)
A
woman makes a rubbings of a name at the 9/11 Memorial during ceremonies
for the twelfth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on lower Manhattan
at the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2013 in New York City.
(Photo by David Handschuh/Pool/Getty Images)
Katya
Busoolo pauses to remember her mother Irina Kolpakova at the 9/11
Memorial during ceremonies marking the 12th anniversary of the 9/11
attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2013 in New York
City. (Photo by Alejandra Villa/Pool/Getty Images)
Friends
and family members gather at the 9/11 Memorial during ceremonies
marking the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade
Center on September 11, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Alejandra
Villa/Pool/Getty Images)
President
Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and
Jill Biden join members of the White House staff during a moment of
silence to mark the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Wednesday,
Sept. 11, 2013, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.
(Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
Participants
stand at attention during an event on the 12th anniversary of the 9/11
attacks, at the Pentagon memorial near Washington (Photo by Jason
Reed/Reuters)
U.S.
President Obama gestures in front of the audience participating in an
event on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, at the Pentagon near
Washington. (Photo by Jason Reed/Reuters) (U.S.
President Barack Obama gestures in front of the audience participating
in an event on the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, at the Pentagon
near Washington September 11, 2013. (Photo by Jason Reed/Reuters))
Isabella
Webster and others with the Council Rock High School South band of
Holland, Pa., stand during prayer at a ceremony marking the 12th
anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Wednesday, Sept. 11,
2013, at the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia. (Photo by Matt Rourke/AP)
New
York City firefighters from Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9, hold
flowers during a ceremony at a park dedicated to honoring members of the
firehouse on West 48th Street who lost their lives in the September 11,
2001 attacks on the World Trade Center on the 12th anniversary of the
attacks in New York, September 11, 2013. (Photo by Mike Segar/Reuters)
Army
JROTC members Samantha Clark (L), 14, and Jesse Weaver, 19, from
Uniontown, Pennsylvania walk past the names during ceremonies
commemorating the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on September 11,
2013 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
A
visitor walks through the “Empty Sky” memorial to New Jersey’s victims
of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, in
Jersey City, N.J. One World Trade Center is visible across the Hudson
River. (Photo by Mel Evans/AP)
