9/11: 12 years on...

Police and firefighters salute as Taps is played during the 12th anniversary commemoration of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2103 in New York. (AP)

Karen Sironi pays her respects to those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, at the 9/11 Monument at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. The monument includes steel columns that were salvaged from the World Trade Center. Sironi said the attacks hit her hard because she was a ticket agent for American Airlines at the time of the attacks. (AP)

Roses are placed on the inscribed name of Peter Kellerman next to an image of Shai Levinhar along the North Pool during 9/11 Memorial ceremonies marking the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2013. (AFP)

Special bases that honor the memory of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks await installation before a baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP)

A woman visits the 9/11 Memorial on 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.  (AFP)

New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano (foreground) and his team mates line up on the top step of the dugout to observe a moment of silence to mark the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, before their MLB American League baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles in Baltimore, Maryland September 11, 2013.  (REUTERS)

New York City's 'Tribute In Light' shines in Manhattan as people ride the Staten Island ferry on the twelfth anniversary of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2013 in New York City. New York City and the nation are commemorating the twelfth anniversary of the September 11, 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. (AFP)

The "Tribute in Light" shines from the Manhattan skyline next to One World Trade Center to commemorate all those who were lost on 9/11 on September 11, 2013 in Hoboken, New Jersey. The lights are located at West and Morris streets in lower Manhattan. 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.(AFP)

The National 9/11 flag is presented at center field during a ceremony commemorating the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks before the game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium on September 11, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.(AFP)

 

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