America collects on Saturday for the twentieth anniversary of September 11 during ceremonies to pay tribute to the 2,977 people who died in the deadliest jihadist attacks in the history of the United States. In the morning, a solemn ceremony was held in the presence of President Joe Biden at the very impressive memorial in Manhattan, New York, where the twin towers of the World Trade Center stood.
After New York, Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, must go during the day to the other two emblematic places of the attacks where tribute ceremonies are also being held. : on the Pentagon site, near Washington, then in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where a plane hijacked by jihadists had crashed.
In total, six minutes of silence and musical tributes must follow one another until 12:30 p.m. (6.30 p.m. Paris time) to mark the tragedies of this fatal morning of Tuesday September 11, 2001, the worst attack perpetrated on the ground American.