George W. Bush praised the 40 passengers and crew who fought back against their Flight 93 hijackers on 9/11 for carrying out what he described as one of the most courageous acts in U.S. history. He spoke at the Flight 93 memorial in Pennsylvania as events across the country began to mark the anniversary. Also attending the ceremony was Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton. See more pics and get more details after the jump…
The nation’s focus will turn on Sunday to ceremonies at the Pentagon and in lower Manhattan for the dedication of the national September 11 memorial.
President Barack Obama planned to attend ceremonies at both sites, as well as the Pennsylvania memorial, and was scheduled to speak at a Sunday evening service at the Kennedy Center.
The New York ceremony begins at 8:30am local time, with a moment of silence 16 minutes later – coinciding with the exact time when the first tower of the World Trade Centre was struck by a hijacked jet.
And then, one by one, there will be the reading of names of the 2,977 killed on September 11 – in New York, at the Pentagon and in rural Pennsylvania.
