Commemorations were held across the United States on Wednesday to mark the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Moments of silence were held at the times each plane crashed — at the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, in rural Pennsylvania, and when the World Trade Center’s North Tower fell. At the Pentagon, President Obama paid tribute to the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives.

President Obama: “We pray for the memory of all those taken from us — nearly 3,000 innocent souls. Our hearts still ache for the futures snatched away, the lives that might have been.”