The United States on September 11 marks the Patriot Day and the National Day of Service and Remembrance. This is a memorial day for those killed in the terrorist arracks of September 11, 2001, IPN reports.

The U.S. Embassy in Moldova said the victims of the terrorist attacks will never be forgotten. Flags in the U.S. are flown at half-mast and the U.S. citizens at 8.46am in New York (3:46pm, Moldova’s time) will observe a moment’s silence in memory of the victims. Also, in the course of the day they devote time to volunteering activities in their communities.

Politicians and ordinary people today laid flowers at the U.S. Embassy in Chisinau in memory of the victims of the terrorist attacks of 2001.

The September 11 attacks, also called 9/11 attacks, are a series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda against targets in the United States, the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil in U.S. history. The attacks against New York City and Washington, D.C., caused extensive death and destruction and triggered an enormous U.S. effort to combat terrorism. Some 2,750 people were killed in New York, 184 at the Pentagon, and 40 in Pennsylvania. All 19 terrorists died. Among the dead were citizens of 90 states.