Ceremony Marks the 28th Anniversary of the First Attack on the World Trade Center
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum held an intimate, socially distanced ceremony to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.
Family members and Memorial staff gathered and left tributes at the North Pool parapet N-73, where the names of the six victims of the attack are engraved on the 9/11 Memorial.
A moment of silence was held at 12:18 p.m., the time of the attack, and the names of the victims were read aloud: Monica Rodriguez Smith and her unborn child, Wilfredo Mercado, William Macko, Stephen Knapp, Robert Kirkpatrick, and John DiGiovanni.
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By 9/11 Memorial Staff
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