9/11 anniversary commemoration

Americans commemorate 9/11 with tributes that have been altered by coronavirus precautions and woven into the presidential campaign.

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Sat., Sept. 12, 2020

Jill Biden holds flowers as she attends the 19th anniversary ceremony in observance of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.

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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden greets Vice President Mike Pence at the 19th anniversary ceremony in observance of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.

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Vice President Mike Pence spoke to a mournful crowd at the Tunnel to Towers Foundation ceremony, where he read the Bible's 23rd Psalm.
US presidential candidate Joe Biden and US Vice President Mike Pence greeted each other with an elbow bump at the September 11 memorial plaza on Friday to mark the 19th anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on US soil.
A visitor pauses at the Wall of Names during a visit to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.

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President Donald Trump, along with others, sit on stage at a 19th anniversary observance of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.

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The Tower of Voices at the Flight 93 National Memorial is shown at sunset Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020, in Shanksville, Pa. The monument's wind-activated chimes, which haven't been properly working since its dedication two years ago, were dedicated Thursday.

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Names of the 40 passengers and crew of Flight 93 are read followed by the ringing of two bells during a memorial service help at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.

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Flowers are placed in the inscribed names of deceased at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in New York. Americans will commemorate 9/11 with tributes that have been altered by coronavirus precautions and woven into the presidential campaign.

John Minchillo
An American flag on top the Space Needle was lowered to half-staff today by the Seattle Fire Department to remember those who lost their lives on 9/11, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. Thick smoke from wildfires burning across Washington, Oregon and California makes seeing the Space Needle and downtown Seattle nearly impossible in this view from Queen Anne Hill.

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Mourners place flowers and pictures in the name cut-out of Kyung Hee (Casey) Cho at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in New York. Americans are commemorating 9/11 as a new national crisis in the form of the coronavirus pandemic reconfigures and divides anniversary ceremonies and a presidential campaign carves a path through the observances.

John Minchillo
A mourner prays over the name cut-out of the deceased Emilio Pete Ortiz at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in New York. Americans will commemorate 9/11 with tributes that have been altered by coronavirus precautions and woven into the presidential campaign.

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Security personnel prepare the venue where Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen will attend a ceremony organized by the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in New York. The names of nearly 3,000 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks are being read by family members.

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From left, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Jill Biden with her husband Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen, observe a moment of silence on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in New York. The names of nearly 3,000 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks will be read by family members.

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Mourners embrace beside the names of the deceased Jesus Sanchez and Marianne MacFarlane at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum on Friday in New York. Americans commemorated 9/11 with tributes that were

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