9/11 Memorial Commemorates 1993 WTC Bombing
(Artdaily.org)

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey today remembered the lives of the innocent victims of the 1993 World Trade Center terror bombing on the 24th anniversary of the attack. A moment of silence was observed at 12:18 p.m., the time of the terror strike that killed John DiGiovanni, Robert Kirkpatrick, Stephen Knapp, William Macko, Wilfredo Mercado and Monica Rodriguez Smith and her unborn child. Each victim’s name was read aloud by family members during the annual ceremony attended by victims’ relatives, survivors, friends, Port Authority officials including Executive Director Pat Foye and others. Ceremony attendees placed roses on the victims’ names that are inscribed together on the Memorial’s North Pool, not far from One World Trade Center. The six names are alongside those of the victims of the 9/11 attacks. “We are gathering today, 24 years since