And here in New York, relatives and friends of the victims who died in the World Trade Center attacks gathered to mark the seventh anniversary of 9/11.

John Napolitano: “If he’s not here, he’s looking at me, and I’m telling him — telling him that I love him. And every day I came down here, there were new messages written in the ash telling me to not give up hope. And I didn’t get my boy back, and I didn’t get a chance to find somebody else’s son.”

Maria Scrivano: “A little emotional. You know, every year, you figure, ’I’m strong enough. I’m strong enough.’ But when you get here, you start breaking down. You just never get over it.”

Elsie Goss Caldwell: “Sadness, a feeling of trying to figure out what was happening in his last — the last moments of his life, trying to be close to him. I had a really great conversation with him the night before for a really long time, and then, like I said, he called me that morning. But it still — because we never found Kenny, it makes it very, very difficult, you know, to do any kind of closure, if you can find closure at all.”