{"id":844123,"date":"2026-09-11T13:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844123\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:06:09","slug":"u-s-marks-25-years-since-the-sept-11-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844123\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. marks 25 years since the Sept. 11 attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Americans are commemorating the 25th anniversary of\u00a09\/11<\/a>, remembering the shock, the dead and the sweeping consequences of the al-Qaida attacks on symbols of U.S. might and prosperity.\n<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s milestone anniversary will bring memorial rituals \u2014 wreath-laying, flag-flying, moments of silence, vigils and readings of victims\u2019 names \u2014 and volunteer projects in tribute to a day that about half of U.S. adults remember as the most historic event of their lifetime,\u00a0according to a new poll<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

For others it\u2019s an occasion for private reflection \u2014 or, in many schools,\u00a0education<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 about\u00a0the attack that unfolded in a single morning<\/a>\u00a0but left nearly 3,000 dead and a decades-long trail of aftermath, from\u00a0personal grief<\/a>\u00a0to far-flung wars.\n<\/p>\n

Police Officer Casey Kloepfer plans to spend time Friday at the Brooklyn station house where his father, Officer Ronald Kloepfer, reported to work that day before being called to the World Trade Center. He didn\u2019t make it home.\n <\/p>\n

Casey Kloepfer was only 4, but he grew up hearing about his father\u2019s affinity for helping people and for a job that enabled him to do so. He became an officer this past June.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s big footsteps to fill, but it\u2019s definitely something that I take very seriously and want to continue to honor him and be the best police officer I can,\u201d he said by phone this week. The 29-year-old wears his father\u2019s badge number and even has joined the New York Police Department lacrosse team, which his dad founded.\n<\/p>\n

Trump to attend Pentagon observance<\/p>\n

On Sept. 11, 2001,\u00a0al-Qaida<\/a>\u00a0extremists hijacked four commercial jets and crashed them into New York\u2019s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.\n<\/p>\n

The impacts brought down the World Trade Center\u2019s twin towers \u2014 icons of U.S. economic power, and among the tallest buildings on Earth \u2014 and blew a hole in the Pentagon, the U.S. military\u2019s fortresslike headquarters near Washington. The fourth plane also was headed for the nation\u2019s capital, officials concluded, but the aircraft went down in Pennsylvania after passengers and crew members stormed the cockpit and fought the hijackers.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the course of history, there are a few moments that divide time into, really, what came before\u201d and after, President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0said at\u00a0a 9\/11 remembrance in Washington<\/a>\u00a0this week. The Republican, who was in his native New York on Sept. 11 and has often\u00a0recounted his memories<\/a>, plans to attend\u00a0the Pentagon\u2019s anniversary ceremony Friday<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

Vice President\u00a0JD Vance<\/a>\u00a0is expected at the observance at the National Sept. 11 Memorial in New York, while other administration officials are headed to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania.\n<\/p>\n

Planned remembrances extend far beyond the attack sites, from beams of light projecting from New Hampshire\u2019s Mount Washington to a stair climb at Mississippi State University\u2019s football stadium to a ceremony at Honolulu\u2019s 9\/11 memorial.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Americans are commemorating the 25th anniversary of\u00a09\/11, remembering the shock, the dead and the sweeping consequences of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[50090,23,3,357298,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-844123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-9-11","tag-america","tag-news","tag-september-11th","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}