Remembering Sept. 11, 15 years later

FILE - In this 1990 file photo, New York City skyline with World Trade Center's twin towers in the center. Before the towers crumbled, before the doomed people jumped and the smoke billowed and the planes hit, the collective American memory summoned one fleeting fragment of beauty: a clear blue sky. (AP Photo, File) — In this 1990 photo is the New York City skyline with World Trade Center’s twin towers in the center. Before the towers crumbled, before the doomed people jumped and the smoke billowed and the planes hit, the collective American memory summoned one fleeting fragment of beauty: a clear blue sky. (AP Photo)

In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 photo, plumes of smoke rise from the World Trade Center buildings in New York. The Empire State building is seen in the foreground. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

AP Photo/Patrick Sison

In this Sept. 11, 2001 photo, smoke billows from World Trade Center Tower 1 and flames explode from Tower 2 as it is struck by American Airlines Flight 175, in New York. (AP Photo/Chao Soi Cheong)

AP Photo/Chao Soi Cheong

In this Sept. 11, 2001 photo, smoke rises from the burning twin towers of the World Trade Center after hijacked planes crashed into the towers, in New York City. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

AP Photo/Richard Drew

People flee the scene near New York's World Trade Center after terrorists crashed two planes into the towers on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. In a horrific sequence of destruction, terrorists hijacked two airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center in a coordinated series of attacks that brought down the twin 110-story towers. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff) — People flee the scene near New York’s World Trade Center after terrorists crashed two planes into the towers on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. In a horrific sequence of destruction, terrorists hijacked two airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center in a coordinated series of attacks that brought down the twin 110-story towers. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)

AP: 830fd220-ae3c-4061-9634-4ef2921ac1ba — In this Oct. 11, 2001 photo, firefighters make their way over the ruins and through clouds of smoke at the World Trade Center in New York. (AP Photo/Stan Honda)

THEN-- With the skeleton of the World Trade Center twin towers in the background, New York City firefighters work amid debris on Cortlandt St. after the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) — With the skeleton of the World Trade Center twin towers in the background, New York City firefighters work amid debris on Cortlandt St. after the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

FIremen walk through a dust and debris covered street in lower Manhattan Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, after a terrorist attack at the World Trade Center. Two jet planes were crashed into the twin towers, collapsing them and covering the area with the debris.(AP Photo/Richard Cohen) — Firemen walk through a dust and debris covered street in lower Manhattan Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, after a terrorist attack at the World Trade Center. Two jet planes were crashed into the twin towers, collapsing them and covering the area with the debris. (AP Photo/Richard Cohen)

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, a man wipes ash from his face after terrorists flew two airplanes into the World Trade Center towers, causing them to collapse. A federal health official is expected to announce in early June, 2012, whether people with cancer will be covered by an aid program for New Yorkers sickened by World Trade Center dust. An advisory committee recommended in March that the government open up the $4.3 billion program to people who developed cancers after being exposed to the toxic soot that fell on Manhattan when the towers collapsed. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File) — In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, a man wipes ash from his face after terrorists flew two airplanes into the World Trade Center towers, causing them to collapse. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, a helicopter flies over the Pentagon in Washington as smoke billows over the building. Partial remains of several 9/11 victims were incinerated by a military contractor and sent to a landfill, a government report said Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, in the latest of a series of revelations about the Pentagon's main mortuary for the war dead. The terrorist-hijacked airliner that slammed into the west side of the Pentagon killed 184 people. (AP Photo/Heesoon Yim, File) — In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, a helicopter flies over the Pentagon in Washington as smoke billows over the building. Partial remains of several 9/11 victims were incinerated by a military contractor and sent to a landfill, a government report said Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, in the latest of a series of revelations about the Pentagon’s main mortuary for the war dead. The terrorist-hijacked airliner that slammed into the west side of the Pentagon killed 184 people. (AP Photo/Heesoon Yim)

Emergency personnel carry an orange body bag with the remains of a victim of the World Trade Center crash, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001. Two hijacked airliners crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center on Tuesday, Sept. 11, destroying both buildings. (AP Photo/Bill Farrington)

AP: 4f5cc81a-0618-4796-bf87-21ed9e195f08 — Photos of victims of the attacks of September 11 and messages from their loved ones, are shown at a news conference, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012 in New York. On the eve of the Sept. 11 anniversary, the faces and recorded voices of those who died have been unveiled as part of the future 9/11 Memorial Museum. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

A man cries on September 11, 2001 after witnessing the collapse of the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.(AP Photo/Shawn Baldwin) — A man cries on September 11, 2001 after witnessing the collapse of the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. (AP Photo/Shawn Baldwin)

Kristen Sosa, from New Jersey, walks near the site of the World Trade Center in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001. Sosa was with a group offering help to survivors of Tuesday's terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson) — Kristen Sosa, from New Jersey, walks near the site of the World Trade Center in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001. Sosa was with a group offering help to survivors of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)

In this September 13, 2001 photograph, people gather around missing person posters on a telephone booth after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.(AP Photo/David Karp) — In this Sept. 13, 2001 photograph, people gather around missing person posters on a telephone booth after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. (AP Photo/David Karp)

In this Sept. 13, 2001 file photo, a U.S. flag flies over the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center buildings in New York. Experts say there may be nowhere else in the world where flags stir more intense feelings than in the United States. (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser)

AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser

In this Sept. 24, 2001 photo, Fritz Koenig’s “The Sphere” outdoor sculpture that once graced the plaza at New York’s World Trade Center lies in the wreckage following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Ted Warren)

AP Photo/Ted Warren

Two ground zero emergency workers hug on Sept. 13, 2001 after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.(AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson) — Two ground zero emergency workers hug on Sept. 13, 2001 after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)

FBI investigators continue their excavation at the Shanksville, Pa., crash site of United Flight 93 on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2001. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

A woman looks at missing person posters of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 14, 2001.(AP Photo/Robert Spencer) — A woman looks at missing person posters of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 14, 2001. (AP Photo/Robert Spencer)

AP: 551c7658-5a82-4cc4-a9e1-a9530be1b1c1 — In this photo taken April 16, 2013, letters written from around the world and sent to the White House offering thoughts and prayers after the 9/11 attacks are displayed in the museum area of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas. (AP Photo/Benny Snyder)

A firefighter’s helmet sits after the annual symbolic climb of 110 stories to honor 300 fallen firefighters on 9/11. (WTOP/Jamie Forzato)

A note rests among flags at a memorial near the crash site of United Flight 93, in Shanksville, Pa., Thursday Oct. 11, 2001. The hijacked airliner crashed Sept. 11, killing all 44 crew and passengers, shortly after two other hijacked airliners crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York and another into the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Gary Tramontina)

This is the view of the United Flight 93 crash site from the Flight 93 National Memorial’s new Visitors center complex in Shanksville, Pa, on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015. The boulder, center rear, marks them plane’s impact site. The visitors center will be formally dedicated and open to the public on Sept. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar

The Flight 93 National Memorial’s new Visitors center complex sits on a hill overlooking the crash site in Shanksville, Pa, on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015. The visitors center will be formally dedicated and open to the public on Sept. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar

A flag flies at half staff at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa, Friday, Sept. 11, 2015, as the nation marks the 14th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. At lower left is the Wall of Names,and upper right is the Flight 93 National Memorial Visitors Center. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Navy Quartermaster Matthew Konchan of Johnstown, Pa., stands in a field of black-eyed Susans as he waits to participate in a wreath laying with Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell during a memorial service at the Flight 93 National Memorial on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 in Shanksville, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Flowers are left and candles lit at a memorial for victims of flight 93 in Union City, Calif., Monday, May 2, 2011 after Osama bin Laden was killed. Flight 93 was hijacked by four al-Qaida terrorists and crashed in to a field as part of the Sept. 11 attacks. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

From left, Shannon Barry, Lisa Starr and Michelle Wagner, all of Hershey, Pa., react as they listen to a memorial service for victims of Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pa., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002. President Bush will lay a wreath at the crash site later in the day to mark the anniversary of the terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) — From left, Shannon Barry, Lisa Starr and Michelle Wagner, all of Hershey, Pa., react as they listen to a memorial service for victims of Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pa., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

AP: f8173de3-0dde-4add-b8c9-3d960f767ae8 — Visitors to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., participate in a sunset memorial service on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. Tuesday marks the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Forty luminarias in memory of the 40 passengers and crew of Flight 93 sit in front of the Wall of Names at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Rick Sarmiento, center, embraces Karen Bingham, left, and Nancy Root, right, during a visit to the Flight 93 National Memorial on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014, Shanksville, Pa. Karen Bingham\’s son Mark Bingham was a passenger on Flight 93, as was Nancy Root\’s cousin Lorraine G. Bay. The memorial marks the spot where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed 13 years ago in a reclaimed strip mine some 75 miles southeast of Pittsburgh after passengers fought back against hijackers. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Sgt. Neomi Raap, an honor guard member of the Nevada Army National Guard, reads a name attached to a flag while visiting a 9/11 memorial in Las Vegas on Monday, Sept. 11, 2006. Palm Mortuary of Las Vegas put up 2,996 U.S. flags honoring the people killed five years ago in the terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)

Jorge, left, and Lisa Maldonado, of New York City, hug as they reflect at a 9/11 Fallen Heroes Memorial after it was unveiled outside the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, in Tampa, Fla. The memorial includes a beam from the World Trade Center Tower 2. People across the country are remembering on the 13th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Chris O\’Meara)

Firefighters and volunteers gathered near the Pentagon Memorial on Saturday, August 27, 2016. They took a photo to honor the 15-year anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon. (WTOP/Kathy Stewart) — Firefighters and volunteers gathered near the Pentagon Memorial on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016. They took a photo to honor the 15-year anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon. (WTOP/Kathy Stewart)

In this Sept. 8, 2013, file photo, Charlotte Newman, 8, visits the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York. Fifteen years after the Sept. 11th attacks, downtown New York has been reborn, not just with the construction of One World Trade, but with a host of attractions both somber and vibrant, including the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, two retail malls, new hotels and restaurants. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File

AP: 198c1851-8546-4d19-a4d0-837ed8ad03b5 — American flags are placed in the engravings of people\’s names that border the reflecting pools of the World Trade Center Memorial, who died in the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attacks, during the 11th anniversary observance, in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Justin Lane)

Joseph Jones, whose wife Felicia Dunn-Jones died of lung disease five months after inhaling toxic dust in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, poses with their portrait at the 9/11 Memorial on Staten Island, New York on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007. Her name has been added to the list of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)

Pope Francis places a white rose at the South Pool of the 9/11 Memorial in downtown Manhattan, Friday, Sept. 25, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

AP Photo/John Minchillo

AP: 0d607998-5779-4482-b528-88a050915e6a — Elena, left, and Elissa Tong mourn their husband and father, Thomas Tong, at the South Pool of the 9/11 Memorial during ceremony marking the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

AP: d2d2e9af-27a3-4a30-9689-5b2e8604ae2b — Mija Quigley, of Princeton Junction, N.J., embraces the name of her son, Patrick Quigley, during ceremonies marking the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. Patrick Quigley died aboard Flight 175 when it crashed into the South Tower on 9/11. (AP Photo/Chris Pedota)

AP: b7524e6e-8cd8-4685-a5cc-6a938f713ba8 — Friends and relatives of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks gather at the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, for a ceremony marking the 12th anniversary of the attacks in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Army Sgt. Edwin Morales prays during a ceremony at the World Trade Center site in New York on Friday, Sept. 11, 2015. With a moment of silence and somber reading of names, victims’ relatives began marking the 14th anniversary of Sept. 11 in a subdued gathering Friday at ground zero. (AP Photo/Bryan R. Smith)

AP Photo/Bryan R. Smith

Geraldine Davie of Pelham, N.Y., cries after viewing name of her 23-year-old daughter, Amy O’Doherty, on the wall at the Sept. 11 memorial during the 12th anniversary observance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. O’Doherty was killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attack. (AP Photo/David Handschuh)

AP: 90506628-6c79-400c-9143-098d7e2f415b — Dennis Swindell kisses the name of his partner Gary Lee Bright on the wall of the South Tower pool, during observances making the eleventh anniversary of the attacks at the World Trade Center, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Timothy A. Clary)

AP: f0542aca-5724-47f9-aecd-8be5e0242dea — The World Trade Center Flag is presented as friends and relatives of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks gather at the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, for a ceremony marking the 12th anniversary of the attacks in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

A woman holds a photograph during a ceremony at the World Trade Center site in New York on Friday, Sept. 11, 2015. Sept. 11 victims’ relatives marked the anniversary of the terror attacks Friday in a subdued gathering at ground zero, saying their determination to commemorate their loss publicly hadn’t dimmed even as 14 years have passed and crowds at the ceremony have thinned. (AP Photo/Bryan R. Smith)

AP Photo/Bryan R. Smith

AP: 55e7de92-c405-472e-8303-a367128a3c97 — An FDNY firefighter stands at attention at 10:03 am at a firefighter’s memorial near One World Trade Center on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, on the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. This moment marks when United Airlines Flight 93 was forced to the ground by hijackers in Shanksville, Pa., only after passengers tried to save the flight. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

AP: c6d8e40d-68e7-4ee1-a4b3-75339d146299 — A firefighter pauses for a quiet moment as friends and relatives of the victims of 9/11 gather for a ceremony marking the 12th anniversary of the attacks at the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

AP: 6d7adb03-59c0-47aa-9ad5-d794bb107bb1 — Maria Rodriguez sits with photos of her son-in-law Emilio Ortiz as friends and relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center gather for a ceremony marking the 11th anniversary of the attacks at the National September 11 Memorial in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

AP: 3ec9eba4-5088-48f1-b675-2f6d42f4d057 — Retired FDNY Marshal, Ernie Medaglia, of Bronxville, N.Y., who was at the attacks at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, is emotional as he listens to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a ceremony near the 9/11 Memorial honoring first responders and FDNY Rescue 1 on the 12th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

The family and friends of the passengers and crew of Flight 93 gather around a boulder that marks the plane\’s impact area during a memorial service at the Flight 93 National Memorial on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, in Shanksville, Pa. Wednesday marks the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

In this Nov. 11, 2015, file photo, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, pauses at Spencer Finch’s “Trying To Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning” during a visit to The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

Red roses are placed next to names of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. at a memorial site during a ceremony marking the 12th anniversary of 9/11 outside Jerusalem, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Pope Francis visits the 9/11 Museum, Friday, Sept. 25, 2015 in New York. (Susan Watts/New York Daily News via AP)

Susan Watts/New York Daily News via AP

In this Wednesday, June 22, 2016 photo, the tree-lined Sept. 11 Memorial can be seen from an upper floor of 3 World Trade Center in New York. The World Trade Center’s latest new skyscraper has reached its full height of 80 stories. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

This Monday, Aug. 15, 2016, photo shows the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, lower left, and commercial office buildings 3 World Trade Center, center, and 4 World Trade Center, right, which are part of the rebuilt site, in New York. The Westfield World Trade Center, a retail mall, will opened Tuesday, Aug. 16, in the three buildings. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

Crowds gather for a celebration for the opening of the Westfield World Trade Center mall in the oculus of the Transportation Hub, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

In this March 3, 2016 file photo, pedestrians walk inside the Oculus, the new transit station at the World Trade Center in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File

Pedestrians pass the Koenig Sphere in Battery Park Thursday, July 21, 2016, in New York. the Port Authority’s Board of Commissioners approved plans to relocate the sphere back to the World Trade Center site. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

AP Photo/Frank Franklin II

AP: de48fee3-4891-4177-8acf-81091459b71f — Nevaeh Lewis, left, and Jonathan Wilson move through the September 11 Memorial in Indianapolis, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 where a bouquet of flowers was placed to honor the victims of the 9/11 attacks on the 12th anniversary at the base of one of two beams taken from the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Visitors to One World Observatory take in views of New York and New Jersey, Tuesday, May 24, 2016, in New York. It’s been a year since the observatory at One World Trade Center opened to the public. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

In this Aug. 16, 2016 photo, visitors take in the sights at the World Trade Center in New York. Behind them is the newly opened transportation hub. Fifteen years after the Sept. 11th attacks, downtown New York has been reborn, not just with the construction of One World Trade, but with a host of attractions both somber and vibrant, including the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, two retail malls, new hotels and restaurants. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

This Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015 photo shows the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, center foreground, surrounded by One World Trade Center, left, the white v-shaped transportation hub, center, and 4 World Trade Center, the tall building at right, in New York. The building under construction at center right is 3 World Trade Center. Friday will mark the 14th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Sailboats pass One World Trade Center, tallest, during Race 3 of the America’s Cup World Series sailing event in New York, Sunday, May 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

AP Photo/Seth Wenig

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