14th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks

A giant American flag is draped on Los Angeles City Hall to mark the 14th anniversary of 9/11.

Lights in lower Manhattan mark the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.

With a fireboat in the background, Bugler Terrance Stevens stands at attention after playing taps during a special 9/11 ceremony aboard the battleship USS Iowa in San Pedro.

Randy Sheridan, from Houston, stands in the middle of the 9/11: Let Freedom Wave memorial, which features nearly 3,000 flags. It was erected once again by students from Pepperdine University in memory of those who died in the 9/11 terror attacks.

United Airlines flight attendant Vicki Jurgens of La Mesa, who lost friends on the Sept. 11 flights, listens to a reading of the names of the dead during a ceremony on the flight deck of the USS Midway Museum.

Sam Campbell, a retired San Diego Fire-Rescue Department hazardous materials specialist, carries a board with the names of three New York firefighters killed on Sept. 11. The firefighters -- John Fanning, John Paolillo and Tom Gardner -- were friends of Campbell’s.

Greg Keiling of Bay Park attends a Sept. 11 memorial ceremony at the USS Midway Museum. He lost his friend Deora Bodley, a passenger on United Flight 93.

Retired Navy Lt. Kevin Shaeffer of Coronado, severely injured Sept. 11 in the attack on the Pentagon, is comforted by son Steven and wife Blanca after speaking at the memorial ceremony on the flight deck of the USS Midway Museum.

Pepperdine students Scott Hutchins, 19, left, and Edward Adutwum, 20, walk through the 9/11: Let Freedom Wave memorial at Pepperdine University.

A man walks past a row of American flags that have been lowered to half staff on the Washington Monument grounds near the U.S. Capitol to mark the 14th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks when terrorists hijacked airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Names are seen on the Empty Sky memorial to New Jersey’s victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Firefighters carry an American flag that once flew at the World Trade Center during memorial observances at the National September 11 Memorial on the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York.

A U.S. flag is draped on the side of the Pentagon, where the building was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, on the 14th anniversary of the attack.

A National Park Ranger’s shadow falls on the Wall of Names at sunrise before a Service of Remembrance at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., as the nation marks the 14th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

A woman wearing a pin in remembrance of Johnnie Doctor Jr., visits the Pentagon Memorial on the 14th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Army Sgt. Edwin Morales prays during a ceremony at the World Trade Center site in New York. With a moment of silence and somber reading of names, victims’ relatives began marking the 14th anniversary of Sept. 11 in a subdued gathering Friday at ground zero.