NEW YORK—Americans were commemorating 9/11 with sombre tributes, volunteer projects and a new monument to victims Tuesday, after a year when two attacks demonstrated the enduring threat of terrorism in the nation’s biggest city. Margie Miller was among the thousands of 9/11 victims’ relatives, survivors, rescuers and others who gathered on a misty Tuesday morning at the memorial plaza where the World Trade Center’s twin towers once stood. “You have to move on,” she said as she headed into the anniversary ceremony with her extended family. “Otherwise, you’d live in fear.”Article Continued BelowThe 9/11 commemorations are by now familiar rituals, centred on reading the names of the dead. For Nicholas Haros Jr., that concern is officials who make comparisons to 9/11 or invoke it for political purposes.

Source: thestar September 11, 2018 12:23 UTC