Twenty years have passed since the terrorist attacks on the United States on the 11th, and a memorial ceremony was held on the site of the World Trade Center Building in New York, which collapsed due to the terrorist attacks.
In the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, four hijacked passenger planes crashed into the World Trade Center Building in New York and the Department of Defense building on the outskirts of Washington, DC, killing 24 Japanese people. A total of 2977 people were killed, including.
At the site of the World Trade Center Building, which collapsed due to terrorism, a memorial service was held from 8:30 am on the 11th local time and 9:30 pm on the 11th Japan time. Former President Obama and former President Clinton attended.
At the ceremony, four passenger planes were silently prayed six times, matching the time when they collided with the World Trade Center building and the time when the two buildings collapsed, and the names of each victim were read aloud.
A monument with the names of all the victims was erected on the site of the building, and the bereaved families who attended the ceremony were touching the names of their families and pointing flowers.
A memorial service was also held at Shanksville, eastern Pennsylvania, where a hijacked airliner crashed and all passengers and crew died, and at the Department of Defense in the suburbs of Washington, where passengers and staff were killed in a crash. On the 11th, 20 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States was wrapped in deep prayer.
In August, the United States set a break in the military operation launched in Afghanistan in the wake of the terrorist attacks and withdrew its army, impressing the shift in strategy over the 20-year "war on terror". rice field
Bereaved family "I realize that 20 years have passed"
Harumi Sugiyama, one of the Japanese bereaved families who died at the World Trade Center Building, also participated in the memorial service held in New York.
My husband, Yoichi, who was a bank clerk, was assigned to New York the year before the incident, and was involved in the incident at the office in the south wing of the World Trade Center Building on that day.
Before the ceremony, Mr. Sugiyama said, "I am grateful that my husband has watched over me for the last 20 years, and I feel that my husband also said," I did my best. " I feel that 20 years have passed. "
Former President Bush "Awe for the courage and kindness he faced"
A memorial service was also held in Shanksville, eastern Pennsylvania, where one of the four hijacked airliners, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed.
The ceremony was attended by former President Bush, who was the president of the time and who undertook a military operation against Afghanistan under the banner of "War on Terror" in response to the terrorist attacks.
In this, former President Bush said, "I was afraid of the magnitude of the destruction of terrorism that day in September, and I was in awe of the courage and kindness to confront it," he said in response to the terrorist incident. I praised the people who hit me.
He then commented on the war on terrorism: "There is some debate about the military actions that have taken place in the last 20 years to hunt down the roots of danger, but for sure we have protected and died all those who participated in the battle. It means to thank people forever. "
"United Airlines Flight 93" crashed when passengers and crew resisted to recover the aircraft from terrorists, and all 40 passengers and crew including Japanese university student Kiya Kushita died.
At the ceremony, the bereaved families read out the names of each of the 40 people and prayed at 10:03 am when the passenger plane crashed.