24 years later, 9/11 will be commemorated in ceremonies at the World Trade Center footprint and on Long Island

Bells will toll in memoriam. Crowds will gather at ceremonies. Names of the dead will be recited one by one.

Nearly a quarter century after almost 3,000 people died when terrorist-hijacked jetliners were crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, a region, a nation and the world will mark another anniversary of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001 .

Even as memories fade and the date itself recedes into the past, more and more first responders and others who lived, worked or studied near the rubble in the months after are getting sick and dying from the airborne toxins unleashed by the explosions .

In New York City, Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to attend the nation’s main 9/11-remembrance ceremony — at the World Trade Center footprint.

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