9/11 anniversary

It was three days after September 11, 2001 when the motorcade for President George W. Bush made its way towards Ground Zero. There, he would survey the unimaginable wreckage, thank the tireless rescue workers and attempt to inspire the grief-stricken nation. Bob Beckwith, at the time a 69-year-old former New York firefighter whose retirement was interrupted by his overwhelming desire…

The NFL brought in Steve Buscemi and Juliette Candela to help reflect on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri has appeared in a video marking the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, attacks, months after rumors spread that he was dead.

It was a full day of somber events across New England, including in Boston where the brave were honored and the fallen remembered.

A declassified FBI document related to logistical support given to two of the Saudi hijackers in the run-up to the Sept. 11 attacks details contacts the men had with Saudi associates in the United States but doesn’t provide proof that senior kingdom officials were complicit in the plot

People walking on the Boston Common on Saturday got a chance to appreciate an 9/11 art project put together in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Rick Rendon and his volunteers stitched together 50,000 pieces of red, white and blue cloth with uplifting messages written by students grades K-12, that made up a large US flag. “The…

A retired flight attendant who has been pushing an airline beverage cart from Boston to New York City for days in honor of the flight crews who died on 9/11 has arrived at Ground Zero to mark the 20th anniversary of the attacks

Thousands of uplifting messages from students across Massachusetts — written 20 years ago — were turned into a giant flag tapestry that was displayed on the Boston Common Saturday.

Family and city officials gathered at the JFK Presidential Library in Boston on Saturday, on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, to honor the lives lost with ties to Massachusetts.

The Mets and Yankees held a Subway Series game on Sept. 11 for the first time on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, as stadium’s around the country paid tribute to the nearly 3,000 killed in the terrorist attacks

Queen Elizabeth II marked the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by offering her sympathies to the victims, survivors and families affected by the atrocity.

Media outlets that often spend hours each day exploring the country’s differences paused to mark the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by recalling almost wistfully the sense of common purpose that united Americans in the aftermath

The Taliban raised their flag over the Afghan presidential palace in a low-key ceremony just as the U.S. and the world marked the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks

Divers in Key West installed an American flag below the ocean’s surface to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

After a poem honoring the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 206 names of people with ties to Massachusetts lost on that day were read out at the commonwealth’s commemoration Saturday.

Two of the four planes used in the September 11 attacks left from Boston’s Logan airport. Twenty years later, security is tighter and agencies are now working more closely to help stop threats.

Massachusetts’ solemn ceremony marking 20 years since the terror attacks on September 11 began with the raising and lowering of the American flag, the singing of the National Anthem and a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m.

Officials gathered in Boston Saturday to remember the more than 200 victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks who were tied to Massachusetts.

Annette Szivos was enjoying Dunn State Park in Gardner, Massachusetts, with her grandchildren in June when the serenity of the day was suddenly shattered. “Someone came in yelling,” Szivos recalled. It was the terrified screaming of an elderly woman pleading to help a man drowning in a nearby pond. “He was, like, flailing,” said Szivos. “His arms were just flailing…