New York
The rain foretold for the morning of this Sunday did not appear and the blue one of the sky, seemed to the one of that one blue crystalline in the morning that changed the course of recent history, predominated during more than four hour and a half than the ceremony lasted. Relatives, politicians and New Yorkers generally breathed alleviated because finally the ceremony passed without no incident or alarms, although Thursday the American authorities alerted of a threat ” credible and especfica” , although not corroborated, of an attack on the part of The Qaeda. With the attempt of revenge of the terrorist group by the death of Osama Bin Laden already in background, New York could pass page and thus pay its first tribute to the victims without the shade del that outside the intellectual author of the attacks that they now changed to the world ten years ago. Memory in the Pentagon the ceremony of 11-S not only was lived in New York. Hundreds of people, headed by the vice-president of the USA, Joe Biden, and the secretary of Dnsa, Panetta Leon, also participated this Sunday in a minute of silence in the Pentagon in tribute of passed away that day there. A total of 184 people died when the flight AA77, the third party kidnapped by the terrorists of The Qaeda, crashed against one of the sectors of the building of the Department of Dnsa, to 9,37 local time (15,37 Spanish peninsular hour). The Band of the Navy interpreted the hymn Amazing Grace after an absolute silence in memory became of the deceaseds.
In a brief intervention, Panetta it assured that ten years after those attacks ” we are country more surely and more fuerte” and tribute to the military contribution to the efforts rendered to avoid a repetition of the attacks. Near 6,200 American soldiers they have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan after the attacks. Tribute in three scenes Barack Obama crossed, with discretion and keeping silence, each one of the scenes of 11-S to pay tribute to the victims of the attacks. In New York he was accompanied of his wife, Michelle, and from his predecessor in the position, George W. Bush, and ex- first lady Laura Bush, Obama it kept a solemn minute of silence, next to all the presents, in the park constructed in ‘ zone cero’.
The following shutdown was Shanksville, in Pensilvania, where tribute with a crown of flowers to the 40 victims of flight 93 rendered, the fourth airplane kidnapped by the terrorists of The Qaeda. Obama and its wife, Michelle crossed the monument (still to finalize and made up of forty marble wakes with the name of each one of the travellers) erected in the open of terrain where it hurried airplane, before depositing in front of him a crown of white roses with a bow with the colors of the flag of the USA. The president and the first lady did not pronounce any public speech in his either third shutdown, the Pentagon, where the presidential pair deposited a new floral offering. There, exactly to 15,37 Spanish peninsular hour had kept a minute from silence in the presence of the vice-president, Joe Biden, and of the secretary of Dnsa, Panetta Leon, in tribute of the 184 deceaseds in the building.