(11 Sep 2019) Family members and friends gathered Wednesday for the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks at a ceremony at ground zero.
Victims' relatives and dignitaries filed in to the memorial plaza at the World Trade Center in New York as the ceremony started at 8:46 a.m. the time when a hijacked plane slammed into the World Trade Center's north tower on Sept. 11, 2001.
"I get up early this morning and I spend all day. Just standing where her name is. Then I go to the museum. And then I go up to the One World (Trade Center building) on the 101 floor that she worked on at Cantor Fitzgerald. And just seeing her all over. It gives me a little comfort," said Sybil Ramsaran whose daughter worked in the North Tower.
John Quinn came to remember his friend Joyce Carpeneto who worked on the 83rd flooor of the North Tower.
"You know, her family came the first year but they don't come anymore. It's just too hard for them to do that," Quinn reflected.
"So I kind of feel like I'm representing everyone who loved her. She was just a lovely person she was a dear friend and this is the only place I could be on September 11th," Quinn said.
Kami Bersaud stood outside of the family entrance of the ceremony remembering her sister-in-law who worked in the south tower.
"She was such a sweet person to us. And we cannot forget he so easily. It hurt us so we always came for the memorial and to remember. She still live in our hearts," Bersaud said.
Edwin Morales came to honor his cousin FDNY fire fighter Ruben Correa.
"It's tough. It never healed. It's 18 years later. And my heart is still broken. But I come down here so we could never forget," Morales said.
Angilic Casalduc, whose mother Vivian worked in North Tower said the ceremony gives her "moments of peace and just tranquility."
"I gather with everyone else and we all mourn together for the same thing they feel what I feel," Casalduc said.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijacked planes rammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Shanksville field on Sept. 11, 2001.
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