Ceremony Today Honors Victims of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will hold a ceremony today to honor the six people who were killed in the first attack at the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993.
The ceremony will include a moment of silence and reading of the names of John DiGiovanni, Robert Kirkpatrick, Stephen Knapp, William Macko, Wilfredo Mercado and Monica Rodriguez Smith. Victims’ families, friends, survivors and Port Authority officials will place flowers near the names of the victims that are inscribed on the bronze parapet of the 9/11 Memorial’s North Pool.
More information about the victims, the timeline and artifacts presented in the Museum can be found here.
Two years after terrorists detonated a van loaded with explosives in the parking garage of the World Trade Center killing six and injuring more than 1,000 innocent people, a memorial fountain, built directly above the blast site, was dedicated and opened to the public.
The 24th anniversary of the first attack on the World Trade Center was commemorated with solemn ceremony on the 9/11 Memorial plaza yesterday. The bombing in the WTC parking garage killed six people and injured more than 1,000 people on February 26, 1993.