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9/11 anniversary live updates: Memorial ceremonies underway in New York and Pennsylvania

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Follow live coverage of 9/11 memorial ceremonies 25 years later as Americans reflect on the attacks.

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro urged Americans to be "active" in the effort to educate people who were either too young to remember the terrorist attacks of 9/11 or were not born yet.

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"Our remembrance must be active. There are about 100 million Americans today who either weren’t born on 9/11, or who are too young to remember that day," Shapiro said at remarks at the ceremony honoring the victims of United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. "We owe it to those young Americans and to generations of Americans to come to preserve the memory of that day, the 2,977 people who were killed.”

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He also paid tribute to the flight's brave passengers and crew whose actions on board prevented the hijackers from reaching its intended target, thought to be the U.S. Capitol.

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"With faith in one another, faith in their God, and a deep abiding faith to this country, they organized, they mobilized, and they summoned the courage to stare evil in the face and fight back. Their actions saved countless lives," he said.

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Shapiro, a Democrat and potential 2028 presidential contender, noted that…

Original source: https://www.nbcnews.com/

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