It's the Ryan Lair Show on WNYC, and we begin today with a moment of radio silence,

joining for just a few seconds, the ceremony at the World Trade Center, honoring those

killed on September 11, 2001, 22 years ago today, with the ritual readings of their

names, plus several specific moments of silence, including at 9.59, which is now, let's

listen in for that minute.

The sound we're hearing is the waterfall in the World Trade Center Memorial.

Gilbert, Franco, Granados, Lauren, Cattuzzi, Gran Colas, and our unborn child.

And now they zoom in the reading of the names.

There are six moments of silence at the annual 9.11 ceremony, punctuating the reading of

the names of those killed on that day.

The first moment of silence came at 8.46 a.m., the time when the first hijack plane crashed

into the North Tower of the Trade Center.

Another at 9.03 a.m., when the second plane hit the South Tower.

Another moment of silence took place at 9.37, the minute when a third hijack plane struck

the Pentagon.

Then the one we just heard at 9.59 when the South Tower collapsed from the impact and

the fire it had caused.

Then there's the one coming up in one minute from now, which we will also join at 10.02

when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania after a struggle between

suicide hijackers on that plane and passengers who bravely tried to retake control, but unfortunately

and tragically in vain.

And there'll be a sixth and final moment of silence at 10.29, which we will also join

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