Today marks 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks , when al Qaeda hijackers crashed four passenger jets into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

The attacks forever changed New York City and the world.

Every year , the city - and nation - pause to remember the 2,983 people killed in the 2001 attacks and in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. A solemn ceremony is taking place this morning at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in Lower Manhattan, which includes six moments of silence.

It's all to fulfill the sacred promise to never forget .

"Many of our enemies, foreign and domestic, thought we were going to collapse as a country, but we got up 9/12," New York City Mayor Eric Adams said ahead of the ceremony. "Teachers tau

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