Moments of silence were observed around the United States on Sept. 11 in remembrance of the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. homeland soil 22 years ago.
At the site of New York’s fallen World Trade Center towers, hundreds of people paused in silence as a bell tolled at 8:46 a.m., the time when the first hijacked airplane crashed into the north tower—the beginning of a series of attacks that reduced the beloved landmark to rubble, killed nearly 3,000 people, and spurred a war on terror that lasted two decades.
