Sept. 11 remembrance

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People at the Garden of Remembrance memorial at the Boston Public Garden marked the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people across three sites: the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., and Shanksville, Pa.





People at the Garden of Remembrance memorial at the Boston Public Garden marked the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people across three sites: the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., and Shanksville, Pa.


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A woman placed flowers at the memorial.


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Flowers rested against the memorial, which is etched with names of victims who had ties to Massachusetts.


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Family members and others gathered at the memorial.


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The World Trade Center Flag is presented as friends and relatives of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks gather at the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, for a ceremony marking the 12th anniversary of the attacks in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

The World Trade Center flag was presented as friends and relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks gathered at the World Trade Center site.


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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 11: A Port Authority Police Officer touches the 9/11 Memorial during ceremonies for the twelfth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on lower Manhattan at the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2013 in New York City. The nation is commemorating the anniversary of the 2001 attacks which resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people after two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and one crash landed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Following the attacks in New York, the former location of the Twin Towers has been turned into the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. (Photo by Alejandra Villa-Pool/Getty Images)

A Port Authority police 0fficer touched the 9/11 memorial during ceremonies.


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Daniel Henry, a Port Authority of New York/New Jersey police officer, pauses during a moment of silence at 9:01 am EDT, at the South reflecting pool at the 9/11 Memorial during ceremonies marking the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2013. AFP PHOTO / Stan HONDA / POOLSTAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images

Daniel Henry, a Port Authority police officer, paused during a moment of silence at 9:01 a.m. at the south reflecting pool at the 9/11 memorial.


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US President Barack Obama places a wreath during a memorial service at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial September 11, 2013 in Washington, DC. Obama, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and others attended the event to mark the 12th anniversary of terror attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center and Shanksville, Pensylvania. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKIBRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images

President Obama placed a wreath during a memorial service at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial in Washington, D.C. Obama, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, and others attended the event.


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A U.S. sailor sits in the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial before the remembrance ceremonies in Washington September 11, 2013. REUTERS/Gary Cameron (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CIVIL UNREST)

A US sailor sat at the Pentagon 9/11 memorial before the remembrance ceremonies.


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A man runs past the 9/11 Empty Sky memorial at sunrise across from New York's Lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, September 11, 2013. Americans will commemorate the 12th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with solemn ceremonies and pledges to not forget the nearly 3,000 killed when hijacked jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania field. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: CITYSCAPE DISASTER ANNIVERSARY)

A man ran past the 9/11 Empty Sky memorial at sunrise in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J., across from One World Trade Center.


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Visitors to the Flight 93 National Memorial participate in a sunset ceremony with a giant flag memorializing Flight 93 on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. Wednesday will be the 12th anniversary of the crash of United Flight 93 in this western Pennsylvania field. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Visitors to the Flight 93 National Memorial participated in a sunset ceremony in Shanksville, Pa., with a giant flag memorializing Flight 93 on Sept. 10.


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