NEW YORK >> At 14 minutes to 9 on this morning, for thousands of people in New York City and across the region, time stopped, and silence descended, filled by memories of another balmy blue-sky morning two dozen years ago.

Then, on a memorial plaza near the bottom of Manhattan, a bell tolled, bagpipes played, and survivors and relatives of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks began reading the names of the dead, as New York’s most somber annual ritual took place for the 24th time.

Gordon M. Aamoth Jr. Edelmiro Abad. Marie Rose Abad.

The recitation continued as a cellist played mournfully.

Gary M. Albero. Jon Leslie Albert. Peter Craig Alderman.

The toll from the attacks continues to grow: Deaths over the years from illnesses caused by the toxic materials in the air a

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