Sep 11, 2015

Nearly a decade and a half after hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center’s twin towers, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the anniversary continues to be marked with observances around the country.

The Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville in western Pennsylvania is marking the completion of its visitor center, which opened to the public Thursday. At the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and other officials will join in remembrances for victims’ relatives and Pentagon employees.

President Barack Obama is scheduled to observe the anniversary with a visit to Fort Meade, Maryland, in recognition of the military’s work to protect the country.

: A man walks past a row of American flags that have been lowered to half staff on the Washington Monument grounds, near the US Capitol on September 11, 2015 in Washington, DC. Today marks the fourteenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks when terrorists high jacked airliners and flew them in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

: Retired Charlotte Fire Department Capt. Tony Bateman holds his niece, Lila Grace Nobles, 3, after helping place 2,997 ìFlags of Remembranceî, at Romare Bearden Park in Charlotte, N.C., in honor of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The event is sponsored by the Firefighter Steven Coakley Foundation, in memory of Coakley a New York City firefighter who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack at the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

: Family members copy the names of loved ones at a ceremony at the Fire Department of New York headquarters where names were added to a memorial wall for deaths related to World Trade Center illnesses on September 8, 2015 in New York City. A total of 21 names were added to the memorial which was unveiled in September 2011 and already lists the names of 89 FDNY members who died of illnesses related to their work at the World Trade Center site during and after the 9/11 attacks. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

: Annalise Marshall (8), whose grandfather firefighter James T. Marshall died of illnesses related to his work at the World Trade Center, attends a ceremony at the Fire Department of New York headquarters where names were added to a memorial wall for deaths related to World Trade Center illnesses on September 8, 2015 in New York City. A total of 21 names were added to the memorial which was unveiled in September 2011 and already lists the names of 89 FDNY members who died of illnesses related to their work at the World Trade Center site during and after the 9/11 attacks. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

: Midshipman 1st Class Peter Guo, left, hands out flags to Midshipman 3rd Class Brandon Alford. Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy placed 2977 flags along Stribling Walk, one for each person killed in the September 11th Attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. The event was sponsored by the Midshipmen Action Group.

: Jan Duncan and her fiance Rege Windisch of Freedom, Pa., look over the victim’s photo display at the new Flight 93 National Memorial Visitor Center in Shanksville, Pa., Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. Sitting on a hill overlooking the crash site near Shanksville, the $26 million visitor center complex opened to the public on Thursday, one day before the annual 9/11 observances in Pennsylvania, New York and Washington. (John Rucosky/The Tribune-Democrat via AP)

: Firefighters attend a ceremony at the Fire Department of New York headquarters where names were added to a memorial wall for deaths related to World Trade Center illnesses on September 8, 2015 in New York City. A total of 21 names were added to the memorial which was unveiled in September 2011 and already lists the names of 89 FDNY members who died of illnesses related to their work at the World Trade Center site during and after the 9/11 attacks. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

: Family members and dignitaries brave the rain at the visitor center at the Flight 93 National Memorial on September 10, 2015 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The newly opened $26 million visitor center complex was dedicated in honor of the victims of Flight 93 on the evening of the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

: After placing his last flag, Midshipman 2nd Class Reilly Klein, of Richmond, VA., says a prayer for his uncle Daniel Suhr, a member of the FDNY killed on 9/11. Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy placed 2977 flags along Stribling Walk, one for each person killed in the September 11th Attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. The event was sponsored by the Midshipmen Action Group.

: A NATO service member takes part in a memorial ceremony on the fourteenth anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the United States at the headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Remembering 9/11, 14 years later

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