Iryna Shkurhan took the photos and reports for The Chief Leader: On what promises to be a crisp, cloudless late-Summer morning, much like that of 24 years ago, the Bell of Hope at St. Paul's Chapel will sound six times today, its knell reaching to the 9/11 Memorial Plaza two blocks west. Six moments of silence, marking specific times corresponding to the attacks of September 11th, 2001 will follow each tolling of the bell. And among the white oaks at Memorial Plaza, families and friends, First Responders and Recovery Workers will gather to commemorate the deadliest attack on U.S. soil and read the names of the 2,977 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11th, 2001 and February 26th, 1993. That annual ceremony, which will last until early afternoon, is not open to the public. But the 9/11 Memorial otherwise remains a place of pilgrimage. Natives and tourists alike congregate on the plaza and come to lean onto the bronze parapets of the reflecting pools, the outlines marking where the Twin Towers once stood. And as clear skies and cooler temperatures announce Fall’s arrival, the homages and salutes to those lost take on more poignant tones. Here are stories and impressions from some who visited the memorial in recent days…

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