Image: People pay respects at the September 11 memorial site a day before the 25th anniversary of the attacks, on Thursday in New York City. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The Guardian reports: “The United States marked the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on Friday, with memorials and remembrance ceremonies taking place across the country to honor the nearly 3,000 people killed.

In New York City, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum’s annual commemoration ceremony began early on Friday morning in lower Manhattan at the site often known as Ground Zero after the destruction of the World Trade Center there on 9/11.

Family members of victims gathered at the 9/11 Memorial Plaza as the names of those killed in the 9/11 attacks and in the earlier bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 were read aloud…”

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