From Mayor Reginald Spinello

Just like this morning, on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 people went about their daily routine; they dropped off their children at school, maybe they traveled by train into Manhattan for work, or got on a flight for a business trip or a vacation, or reported for duty at the Pentagon. In an instant, everyone’s daily routine and everything we knew as normal was stolen from us by terrorists. Taken from their families were nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center; the passengers on American Airlines Flight 11; United Airlines Flight 175; American Airlines Flight 77; the staff at the Pentagon; and the passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Today we also pay tribute to the 343 New York City firefighters; the 23 New York Police Officers; the 37 Port Authority Police Officers; the 15 EMTs; and the 3 Court Officers who were killed that day.