Monday marks the 22nd anniversary of the Attacks on America and communities across the country are pausing to mark the solemn occasion.
On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four planes, crashing two into the Twin Towers of New York City’s World Trade Center, a third into the side of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C. and the fourth brought down in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania,Still, more than two decades later, about 40% of victims, or 1,100 people who were thought to have died are still not identified. But efforts continue as two more victims were recently identified through DNA testing.
Vice President Kamala Harris will be part of the ceremony at the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum plaza whereJames Giaccone is taking part once again, reading the name of his brother Joseph who was 43 when he was killed in the attacks. “If their name is spoken out loud, they don’t disappear,” Giaccone said, according to the AP. “I hope I never see the day when they minimize this. It’s a day that changed history.”
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