Syracuse's first responders will host a September 11th Remembrance Ceremony Thursday morning.
It comes 24 years after terrorists simultaneously flew two passenger jets into the Twin Towers in New York City, another into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and crashed a fourth into a Shanksville, Pennsylvania field ending what investigators have reported was intended for to the U.S. Capitol.
Nearly 3,000 people perished in the initial attack, and thousands more from illnesses resulting from being in or around the explosions, according to the World Trade Center Health Program.
The event at Forman Park is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. but members of the public are asked to arrive by 8:15. After a candle lighting ceremony there will be 17 minutes of silence from 8:46 a.m. until 9:03 a.m. representing the time between the first and second planes striking the World Trade Center Towers.
