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Twenty-five years after the deadliest attack on US soil, Americans paused on Friday to commemorate the nearly 3,000 people killed when hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania – and to wrestle with the consequences of September 11 that reverberate to this day. Read more9/11 then and now: Do September 2001 attacks still shape our world? In New York, family members of the victims joined Vice President JD Vance and four former US presidents at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. The ceremony ​began, as always, at 8:46am ‌with a moment of silence to remember the shocking instant when American Airlines Flight 11 struck the World Trade Center’s North Tower. Shortly after, victims’ family members began reading ⁠aloud the names of all 2,977 people who died on September 11, as well as the six people killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, a sombre recitation that will last for hours. Other moments of silence, marking when the other three airplanes crashed and the two towers collapsed, will follow. For the first time, ‌a seventh silence will be observed to honour the thousands who have died since 2001 from illnesses tied to the toxic du...