2002- Mourners lay flowers at the Circle of Honor at the World Trade Center attacks site, as rescue workers stand behind them during a memorial service commemorating the one-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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2002- A crowd, some holding photos of loved ones who died in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, gather during a memorial service at Ground Zero.
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2003 – A New York City police officer cries as she holds a picture of a firefighter during the second anniversary memorial of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The names of the nearly 2,800 victims were read by 200 surviving children and family members at the ceremony at Ground Zero.
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2003 – An unidentified relative of a WTC Victim kisses the ground at the “Pit” during the WTC Memorial Service at the World Trade Center Site.
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2004 – Volunteers pause before a reflecting pool at Ground Zero before the start of the World Trade Center Memorial Ceremony marking the third anniversary of the attacks of 9/11.
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2004 – A New York State EMT worker kneels at a memorial pool during ceremonies marking the third anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks at Ground Zero.
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2005 -Memorial lights were lit again at the location of the World Trade Center in New York City on the 4th anniversary of 9/11.
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2005 – Thousands gather, some holding pictures of loved ones lost during the attacks, as the city and nation remembers the attacks of 9/11 on the fourth anniversary.
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2006 – President George W. Bush, center, and first lady Laura Bush, left, flanked by a military officer lay a wreath during a memorial event held at Ground Zero. Bush began two days of ceremonies marking the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, laying wreaths at the site of the World Trade Center in New York.
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2006 – Family members gather at the edge of one of two reflecting pools marking the locations of the World Trade Center towers during the September 11th commemoration ceremony.
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2007 – The Tribute in Light Memorial illuminates the sky above Lower Manhattan. On the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and then-Sen. Hilary Clinton visited Ground Zero.
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2007 – In what would be the most visual tribute to those fallen, construction continues at the World Trade Center site with memorial footprints of the twin towers visible.
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2008 – A member of the FDNY holds a picture of Lt. John P. Napolitano, one of many firefighters lost during the rescue effort on Sept. 11.
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2008 – The tattered flag from 9-11-01 is brought out to the stage where the names of those that died in the attack were be read by family members on the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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2009 – Rain seemed fitting on a day where the city commemortated the loss of nearly 3,000 people. Family and friends gather to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice on 9/11.
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2009 – On the eighth anniversary of 9/11, a New York City firefighter rings a bell in remembrance of those who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
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2010 – Family members of the 9/11 victims visit and place flowers on the reflecting pool during the ceremony of ninth anniversary of 9/11.
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2010 – Construction continues at the World Trade Center site with memorial footprints of the twin towers visible during the ninth anniversary of one of the darkest days in our nation’s history.
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