9/11 anniversary ceremony ends with taps

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives for the 15th Anniversary of September 11 at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, on September 11, 2016, in NY.

The Al-Qaeda attacks killed 2,753 people in NY, 184 at the Pentagon in Washington, DC and 40 on Flight 93 – which had been heading towards the U.S. capital when the passengers and crew staged a rebellion and the hijackers crashed the plane into a field in Pennsylvania.

He quoted Scripture: “Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you”.

Victims’ relatives and dignitaries will once again convene Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016, on the memorial plaza at the World Trade Center for one of the constants in how America remembers 9/11 after 15 years, the anniversary ceremony itself. Asked about the incident, the Republican nominee said only: “I dont know anything about it.” Trump left the ceremony after Clinton.

The New York Police Department also held a memorial to remember those officers killed that day, reading out names of each of them.

“Sometimes the bad things in our lives put us on the path to where we should be going to help others as many have helped me”, he said.

Ryan Van Riper said he planned to honor his slain grandmother, Barbara Shaw, by serving the country. Clinton left the 9/11 commemoration ceremony early after she felt overheated and went to her daughter’s apartment, the Clinton campaign said.

To the survivors and families of victims, Obama said, “You remind us there’s nothing that Americans can’t overcome”.

Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement that Clinton attended the morning ceremony for 90 minutes “to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen”.

There were also two attacks at the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C. and another plance crash in a field in Pennsylvania.

“I believe most of her spirit, or at least some of her spirit, is here”.

A man at New York’s September 11 memorial ceremony holds aloft a photo of a loved one lost in the attacks.

More than 340 firefighters and 60 police were also killed on that sunny Tuesday morning in 2001, in the worst attack on United States soil since Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941.

An aerial view of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, seen on September 8, 2016, in New York City.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Sunday news shows that the United States is safer now than it was in 2001 against another 9/11-style attack but continues to face the challenge of potential attacks by solo and homegrown violent extremists.

In the twin towers’ place now rises the 104-story 1 World Trade Center.

Yellow roses are placed over the name of Robert Clinton Kennedy at the World Trade Center Memorial, Sept. 9, 2016, in NY. Neither candidate was expected to make public remarks at a ceremony where politicians have been allowed to attend, but not speak, since 2011.

In New York City, victims were honored by surviving relatives who spoke where the World Trade Center towers once stood. A service will be held at the Flight 93 National Memorial starting at 9:45 a.m. ET Sunday. At a Pentagon ceremony, President Barack Obama praised military members and others who have helped the USA fight terrorism, urged Americans not to let their enemies divide them and called the country’s diversity one of its greatest strengths.

President Obama observes a moment of silence in front of a wreath prior to a ceremony at the Pentagon commemorating the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, September 11, 2016.

Organisers planned some additional music and readings on Sunday to mark the milestone year.