Photos: 9/11 Memorials

Jeremy Weine / Getty People watch and take pictures as a drone light show depicting the Twin Towers appears along the skyline during testing of the Tribute in Light installation in Lower Manhattan on September 9, 2026, as seen from Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Spencer Platt / Getty Jim Maroon ( right ) and Victor Pedraza, workers at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, push water brooms and vacuums through the water during the evening cleaning of one of the September 11 Memorial reflecting pools as the museum prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, on September 3, 2026, in New York City.

Mario Tama / Getty A visitor adjusts an American flag among a display of nearly 3,000 flags at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, honoring lives lost during the September 11 terrorist attacks on September 10, 2026.

David Dee Delgado / Reuters A firefighter fixes a photo of a first responder who died on 9/11 during the Fire Department of the City of New York’s (FDNY) memorial service, ahead of the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, in the Staten Island borough of New York City, on September 9, 2026.

Adam Gray / AP Names of New Jersey residents who died on 9/11 are spotlighted on the Empty Sky September 11 memorial on September 9, 2026, in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Angelina Katsanis / AP A young boy uses a memorial candle to count the faces of fallen firefighters at the Brooklyn 9/11 Wall of Remembrance during the annual candlelight ceremony in Coney Island on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the September 11 World Trade Center attacks, September 10, 2026, in New York.

Pete Kiehart / The Washington Post / Getty Joan Platz, a survivor of the September 11 attack on the Pentagon, poses for a portrait on a bench at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial on September 7, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia.

Each bench memorializes a person who died in the attack; this bench represents U.S.

Navy Captain Robert Dolan, who was Platz’s classmate at the Naval Academy.

This was Platz’s first visit to the memorial.

Angelina Katsanis / AP People hold candles during the Brooklyn 9/11 Wall of Remembrance Candlelight Ceremony in Coney Island on September 10, 2026.

Gary Hershorn / Getty A woman takes a photograph of the two beams of light that make up the Tribute in Light as it is illuminated over Lower Manhattan ahead of the 25th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 9, 2026, in New York City.

Adam Gray / AP An American flag flies, with the Lower Manhattan skyline in the background, on September 9, 2026, in Jersey City, New Jersey.