Last Saturday, September 11th, people all over the United States and the world took time to remember the victims of the terrorist attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania nine years ago. Progress on the rebuilding of Ground Zero in lower Manhattan is now becoming more evident as One World Trade Center topped 36 stories recently, on its way to 1,776 feet by 2012. The building, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, is now growing at a rate of one floor per week, after years of political, security and financing issues plagued the $11 billion multi-building project. A push is underway in both New York and Pennsylvania to complete memorial projects before next year's 10th anniversary. Collected here are photos from this weekend's memorials and of the rebuilding progress so far.
Two-year-old Luke Pavlenishzili, riding on the shoulders of his father George Pavlenishzili, offers a rose to New York firefighter Joe Huber, who was standing at the reflecting pool at ground zero during a memorial service commemorating the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Chang W. Lee)
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John Blossom of Connecticut sits by himself in quiet contemplation across from the site of the former twin towers on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2010. Blossom commented that he was supposed to have been inside the World Trade Center at the time it was attacked but circumstances kept him from being there. (REUTERS/Gary Hershorn) #
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A boy sits in silence on the edge of a reflecting pool in memory of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks September 11, 2010 in New York City. Thousands gathered to pay solemn homage on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) #
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A firefighter salutes as taps is played, before a moment of silence for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, during a commemoration ceremony at Zuccotti Park, adjacent to ground zero, on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) #
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Patty Sumner holds up a picture of her brother Lt. Joseph G. Leavey next to Ground Zero September 11, 2010 in New York City. Lt. Leavey was a New York City fire fighter who was killed on September 11, 2001. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) #
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Notes and flowers are seen left by family members of the 9/11 victims that visited the reflecting pool in memory of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on September 11, 2010 in New York City. (Chang W. Lee/Getty Images) #
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An honor guard plays trumpet at the World Trade Center site during a memorial service commemorating the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Chang W. Lee) #
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Family members of 9/11 victims gather on the edge of a reflecting pool in memory of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on September 11, 2010 in New York City. (Chang W. Leel/Getty Images) #
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A rose floats in the reflecting pool at Ground Zero during the annual 9/11 memorial service September 11, 2010 in New York City. (Don Emmert/Getty Images) #
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Mennonite Christians sing hymns during 9/11 commemorations outside the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2010 in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) #
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People walk past the famous cross discovered in the rubble of Ground Zero prior to 9/11 commemorations outside the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2010 in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) #
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Liza Adams wears a necklace with a portrait of her daughter, Mary Lou Hague, 26 killed during the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York September 11, 2010. (REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi) #
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A woman sits on a bench at the Pentagon Memorial prior to a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Arlington, Virginia on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. President Barack Obama called it "a day of remembrance, a day of reflection" after laying a wreath during the ceremony honoring the 184 government workers and airline passengers who died when hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the headquarters of the Defense Department nine years ago at 9:37 a.m. (Alex Wong/Bloomberg) #
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President Barack Obama hugs a woman as he greets family members of victims after speaking at the Pentagon Memorial, marking the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) #
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A man holds his hat while praying at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 11, 2010, during a service of remembrance, marking the 9th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) #
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US former First Lady Laura Bush and First Lady Michelle Obama bow their heads in prayer at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2010, during a service of remembrance. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) #
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A temporary memorial rests at the crash site at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 2010. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) #
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Ribbons of Remembrance are tied to the fence at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 11, 2010. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) #
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From left, Gordon W.Felt, president of Families of Flight 93 and Joanne Hanley, Superintendent of the Flight 93 National Memorial show U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama and former first lady Laura Bush the future site of the memorial that is under construction during a 9/11 Flight 93 commemoration September 11, 2010 in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. (Archie Carpenter/Getty Images) #
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People walk amongst flags erected by students and staff from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, who placed nearly 3,000 flags in the ground to honor the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, on September 10, 2010. (MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) #
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Christopher Gardner, 12, of Darien, Connecticut waits outside for his mother during a remembrance ceremony for Connecticut victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at Sherwood Island State Park in Wesport, Connecticut on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Gardner's father Christopher Samuel Gardner worked at the World trade center and was killed in the Sept. 11 attack. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) #
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Chicago Cubs' Alfonso Soriano gets back to first base safely on a pick off attempt by Milwaukee Brewers' Randy Wolf in the fifth inning of a baseball game Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps) #
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A woman reacts as she visits the memorial garden to the victims of the September 11 attacks on the United States, in London, England on September 11, 2010. (REUTERS/Paul Hackett) #
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Names of UK citizens who died in the 9/11 attacks are pictured on a plaque in the Grosvenor Square memorial, on September 11, 2010 in London, England. Family of the victims, government officials and others gathered in Grosvenor Square in central London, on the 9th annual ceremony to remember the people who lost their lives in the attacks. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) #
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U.S. military personnel participate in a candlelight service to honor those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, at Camp Phoenix, Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/ Mustafa Quraishi) #
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Construction continues at the World Trade Center site with memorial footprints of the twin towers visible September 7, 2010 in New York City. Officials provided an update on the rebuilding efforts as the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks approaches. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) #
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One World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, seen under construction on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, in New York. When completed the building will rise to 1,776 feet (541 meters). (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) #
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An ironworker pushes a beam into place on One World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) #
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Memorials built in the footprint of the World Trade Center towers are seen in front of One World Trade Center as it is being built at the World Trade Center construction site in New York September 8, 2010. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) #
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Construction materials sit in and around a memorial built in the footprint of the north tower of the World Trade Center tower at the World Trade Center construction site in New York September 8, 2010. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) #
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Construction workers complete detail work on the wall of one of the reflecting pools that will form part of the 9/11 memorial on Ground Zero August 31, 2010 in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) #
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A sample stone slab inscribed with names of victims from the 9/11 terrorist attacks is seen at Ground Zero August 31, 2010 in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) #
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A grove of sixteen swamp white oaks is planted at the National September 11 Memorial, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010 in New York. Crews Saturday began planting the 16 trees at the World Trade Center site. They are the first of nearly 400 trees to be planted around the eight-acre memorial to the nearly 3,000 people killed when terrorists attacked the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) #
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Workers continue construction inside the in-progress One World Trade Center tower August 31, 2010 in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) #
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A 70-foot steel column recovered from the World Trade Center rubble is installed at the site of the 9/11 museum on the World Trade Center site September 7, 2010 in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) #
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The outline of two squares memorializing the Twin Towers seen next to the rising new One World Trade Center (right) amidst the construction on Ground Zero in lower Manhattan August 24, 2010 in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) #
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A construction worker on the structure of One World Trade Center at ground zero in New York on Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) #
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The Tribute in Light rises behind the construction cranes on One World Trade Center, among the lower New York skyline, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. In an annual tradition, the two bright blue beams of light rise from lower Manhattan in memory of the fallen twin towers. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) #
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The base of one of the two Tribute in Lights installations, being tested from a rooftop near ground zero on Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Jin Lee) #
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The Tribute in Lights, seen while looking up from inside one of the two installations on the ninth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2010. (REUTERS/Eric Thayer) #
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The Tribute in Lights illuminates the sky over lower Manhattan on September 11, 2010. (REUTERS/Gary Hershorn) #
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Looking up towards the Tribute in Lights above lower Manhattan on the ninth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2010. (REUTERS/Eric Thayer) #
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