NEW YORK (WABC) — The National Memorial to the September 11th Attacks & Museum holds its annual remembrance ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, remembering the 2,983 men, women and children killed aboard Flight 93 in the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, as well as those killed in the World Trade Center bombing on February 26, 1993.

The September 11 memorial service on Wednesday is aimed at the families of the victims, who, as always, are invited to participate in this year’s reading of the names.

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Organizers said the main focus of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum continues to host its annual memorial ceremony, where family members gather on Memorial Plaza to remember their loved ones.

Throughout the ceremony, there will be six minutes of silence to commemorate the moments when each of the World Trade Center towers was struck and collapsed, as well as the corresponding moments of the attack on the Pentagon and the crash of United Airlines Flight 93.

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Eyewitness News will be providing live coverage of the memorial service for the victims. Bill Ritter will re-anchor our coverage on Channel 7 and across all of our ABC7NY platforms beginning at 8:25 a.m.

EVENT SCHEDULE
-8:30 a.m. – Program starts
-8:46 a.m. – Minute of silence (time of remembrance when AA Flight 11 hit the North Tower)
– The families of the victims of the 2001 and 1993 attacks begin reading out the names in pairs.
-9:03 a.m. – Minute of silence (minute of remembrance at the time of the impact of UA Flight 175 into the South Tower)
-The reading of the names continues
-9:37 a.m. – Minute of silence (minute of remembrance at the time of the impact of AA Flight 77 into the Pentagon)
-The reading of the names continues
-9:59 a.m. – Minute of silence (commemoration of the collapse of the South Tower)
-The reading of the names continues
-10:03 a.m. – Minute of silence (minute of remembrance at the time of the crash of UA Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania)
-The reading of the names continues
-10:28 a.m. – Minute of silence (commemoration of the collapse of the North Tower)
– The reading of names will continue until completion

A complete list of the names of the 2,983 victims of the 2001 World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Flight 93 attacks, as well as the victims of the 1993 WTC bombing whose names are engraved on the memorial, can be found on the memorial’s website.

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