Communities across Los Angeles County paused to pray for peace, memorialize the dead and thank first responders on the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on Thursday. Myriad services featured words of tribute, the mournful wails of bagpipers, a helicopter flyover and the ringing of “10-Bells.”

Countless events memorialized the 2,977 victims who died when planes crashed into the World Trade Center’s twin towers in New York and the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., as well as the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93, who stopped their hijackers from hitting their intended target, with the plane instead crashing in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

All L.A. County departments flew the U.S., state and county flags at half-staff to honor the lives lost in the deadly attack

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