December 11, 2001 Ceremonies to Commemorate Terror Attacks on U.S.

Washington -- President Bush will lead a ceremony at the White House the morning of December 11 to commemorate the terrorist attacks on the United States three months earlier and to help ensure that the world never forgets what happened.

At 8:46 a.m. (13:46 GMT) -- the time the first hijacked commercial liner crashed into the World Trade Center in New York -- the U.S. Marine Band will play the National Anthem and U.S. soldiers will raise high the flags of the more than 80 countries that lost citizens in the attacks. Families of some of the thousands of victims will take part in the event, as will firefighters and police.

Similar remembrance ceremonies will be held at the Pentagon; the site of the World Trade Center in New York, now known as Ground Zero; and a site in rural Pennsylvania.

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