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Summary Thousands of people thronged the site to commemorate the victims of 9/11.
A ceremony attended by President Barack Obama to honor nearly 3,000 people killed on September 11, 2001, began in New York Sunday with a procession of bagpipers and singing of the national anthem.After Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced proceedings at Ground Zero, saying it was a chance to reflect and remember, the ceremony observed a moment of silence to mark the exact time when the first hijacked plane hit the World Trade Center, starting the 9/11 attacks.It was the first of six moments of silence to be observed at the ceremony at Ground Zero: one for each of the towers hit, one each for the Pentagon and the crash of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania and one each for the collapse of two towers.
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