Family members of 9/11 victims paused six times this morning at the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, DC, and a field in Shanksville, Pa., listening as bells tolled to commemorate the moments when the four planes crashed and the two towers fell 10 years ago. The 9/11 memorials began in New York at 8:30 this morning at the World Trade Center, where President Obama and former President George W. Bush gathered with family members and first responders for the annual reading of the nearly 3000 names of those killed. The presidents both recited readings to the crowd. Obama read Psalm 46, which starts, "God is our refuge and strength," while Bush read a letter by Abraham Lincoln, saying, "the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom." Both men departed after the readings to go to other ceremonies in Pennsylvania and Washington. In the newly completed 9/11 Memorial Plaza at the site, family members stood shoulder-to-shoulder, holding up pictures of their loved ones who died as the speakers on stage tearfully read the names out loud. "My beautiful husband and proud father, David Garcia, we love and miss you and live every day in your honor," one speaker read. Many members of the audience could be seen and heard crying throughout the reading, while some shouted, "We love you," as the name of their loved one was said aloud. "My big brother, Joseph Michael Ciccone, we love you and miss you," one speaker_b_..._/b_
