Americans are remembering 9/11 with tear-choked tributes and pleas to “never forget” 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil.
But like some other victims' relatives, Jay Saloman fears that Americans' consciousness of 9/11 is receding.
By tradition, no political figures speak at the ground zero ceremony. The observance centers, instead, on relatives reading aloud the names of the dead. The family later moved to Houston but often returns to New York for the anniversary to be"around people who kind of experienced the same type of grief and the same feelings after 9/11,” said Shah. She was 10 when her father was killed.Readers often add personal remarks that form an alloy of American sentiments about Sept.
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