NEW YORK (AP) - Ten years. The longing for loved ones lost in the worst terrorist attack occur on American soil. Send son, daughters, fathers and mothers to war on foreign soil. By redefining what security means and to worry about another 9 / 11 - or something worse.
Ten years has arrived. And with the memories. In the morning in September, the fourth plane crashed when terrorists hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon and crashed in a field in rural western Pennsylvania. For heroism and the Samaritans and unimaginable fear.
And nearly 3,000 people killed at the hands of a global terrorist network headed by Osama bin Laden, who is now dead.
On Sunday, bringing people together across America to pray at the cathedral in their cities and lay the roses before the fire station in their small towns. Around the world, many others do the same thing, because so much has changed for them in that day, too.
Bells is free. The Americans will see the new memorial in Manhattan, in rural Pennsylvania and elsewhere, the symbols have decided to remember and rebuild.
But many of the ceremonies of weight this year is in what will be largely tacit. It is the role of the anniversary of encouraging Americans to consider how the attacks affected their lives and the world and the ongoing struggle to understand the place of 9 / 11 's in the tradition of the nation.
"A lot happens in the background," said Ken Foote, author of "Shadowed Ground: America Scenes of violence and tragedy," examines the role, respect for the game zones death and disasters of modern life. "This anniversary is particularly critical to understand what the story, trying to figure out what this all means. It forces people to understand what has happened to us."
Saturday in rural western Pennsylvania, more than 4,000 people began to tell the story again.
At the dedication of the Flight 93 National Memorial in the town of Shanksville, former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden joined the families of 40 passengers and crew aboard the plane that fought against their attackers.
"At the time, American democracy has been threatened by citizens defied their captors and hold the vote," Bush said. The decision cost them their lives.
Passengers and crew on "all the incomparable gift of savings from the attacks of the Capitol," untold numbers of lives and denied al Qaeda a symbolic victory, "Smashing the center of the U.S. government," Clinton said.
They were "ordinary people little time to decide and did the right thing," he said.
"And 2500 years from now, I hope and pray that people will remember forever."
Pennsylvania Memorial Park is the end of the year. But the dedication and service to celebrate 10 years of attacks on critical milestones, said Sally Ware, one of the "ambassadors" for volunteer who has acted as a guide to the site after this tragedy.
Ware, whose house was hit when the plane crashed two miles away, remember that hundreds of people flocked to the place the day after leaving his memories and memories. She offered after finding one side of the road - a red rose placed on top of a flight attendant uniform.
"It really bothered me. I thought someone should take care of that," said Ware, whose daughter is a flight attendant.
Today, ten years later, she said that the monument can little to ease the pain of the families of the deceased in the accident.
But the ceremonies of the weekend to remember the story of a much broader scope. Ceremonies in honor of those who "fought the first battle against terrorism - and have won," Ware said. "It 's something that I do not want to lose. It' became part of my life."
Sunday, turning the focus to the ceremony at the Pentagon just outside Washington, DC, and in lower Manhattan for the dedication of the National September 11 Memorial. Barack Obama plans to attend events in places and had to speak on a Sunday evening service at the Kennedy Center.
The ceremony begins at 8:30 in New York, with a minute of silence 16 minutes later - that matches the exact moment the first tower of the mall was hit by a hijacked plane.
And then, one by one, reading the names of people killed on September 11th 2977 - New York, the Pentagon and rural Pennsylvania.
They contain the names of the 37 Bureau of Investigation, Patrick Lim fellow police officers, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Lim, assigned to patrol Trade Center with a dog to detect explosives, crashed into the north tower after it was hit to help evacuate the workers. He and some others survived, although still in a fifth floor staircase when the building fell.
In the years since, Lim said he struggled with survivor guilt. He found refuge in selective memory, visualization, earth-covered women's shoes in the middle of the destruction. "That's how I got through because it was attached to the shoe was much worse," said Lim.
10 years has forced the return to experience Lim, has also worried many people drove their minds. But the approach to the ceremony Sunday convinced him to check the value of the Sept.11, both for themselves and others.
When he came to speak of the events on that day "was not easy for me. It was very difficult. ... But it was a catharsis, "he said. "What I want is for people to remember what happened."
And then comes on Sunday dedicated to the memory, with hundreds of ceremonies throughout the country and the world - a memorial mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York for a ceremony with nine-story high replica of the twin towers a square in Paris.
But some of the most powerful ceremonies, and probably the smallest staff.
Newtown, Connecticut, a former American Stock Exchange floor brokers Howard Lasher planned a ceremony Sunday morning under a canopy of maple trees in six feet along the gravel on his driveway, their structures are painted to resemble the U.S. flag.
Lasher commissioned the painting as a tribute to nine of his colleagues and the son of another who died inside the mall.
"I wanted something that people get that people do not forget," said Lasher.
And in the small town of Brown, Michigan - no direct connection to the attacks - firefighters plan to leave the roses in a steel beam 343 of 15,000 books saved from the World Trade Center, in honor of his brothers died in New York . It has become a local shrine, head Jim Beans said.
A few days ago, a couple of St. Joseph, Michigan, who was driving through, pulled a lot of fire when they noticed the sign of the monument. Durum said the woman who was a flight attendant with American Airlines on September 11th day.
Then he turned to the steel beam from the Trade Center, and I cried. "He said it was just an honor that someone still cares," said Groat.
CHAPTER observed in silence, before offering an invitation.
"I'll see you here on September 11?" He asked.
"I'll be here," he said.
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