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I'm Scott Tattreau, I also cover the White House. And I'm Ron Elbing, Editor Correspondent.

It is currently 12.36 pm Eastern time on Saturday, September 11th.

That sound was a bell in New York City to mark the moment the first plane hit the North

Tower of the World Trade Center. It was the beginning of events around the country today marking

the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. Shortly after, the reading of the names of the nearly

3000 victims began and it would continue for hours. Lawrence Christopher Abel, Alana Abraham,

William F. Abrahamson, at the Pentagon,

and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at the crash site of Flight 93 where crew and passengers

wrestled with the hijackers who were likely trying to target the US Capitol.

Scott, you're joining us now from Shanksville where you've been covering the memorial ceremony today.

Describe what you have been hearing, what you've been watching. Yeah, yeah, the ceremony was

at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville. If you listen to the podcast, you've heard a lot

about this space over the past weeks. There was a stage set up right next to the wall of names,

the 40 names of the passengers and crew that looks out over the field where the plane crashed

with the hemlock trees behind. The wildflowers that really are kind of the calling card of this site,

this iconic look, when you get to this site, it's just these beautiful rolling fields of flowers.

They're a little faded because we're getting to fall, but you could still see the yellow in the

field. It was a beautiful day here. It was just a really quiet, somber, reflective mood to begin

the ceremony. The patterns and habits of these commemorations ceremonies have really never changed

over the years. There's the reading of the names. There's the bells. There's the moments of

silence when the planes struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and then crashed here in

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