Family members and friends gathered at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in Lower Manhattan to honor 9/11 victims on the 21st anniversary of the attacks.

The names of the nearly 3,000 people who were killed that day, and those who died from related illnesses, were read out loud. 

The memorial service included several moments of silence, including when the planes hit the Twin Towers and when the towers fell.

"It took a tragedy to unite our country. Back then, no one cared if you were Republican, Democrat, age, gender, race, ethnicity. It  didn't matter. It took a tragedy to unite us. And I want to remind all of you there, it should not take another tragedy to unite our nation,” said one of the name readers, Andrew Colabella, whose cousin, John DiGiovanni, died in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Elected officials that were in attendance were Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Attorney General Letitia James.