Usa, commemorations for the September 11, Bush and Obama together at Ground Zero

Ten years after the attack on the twin towers, America honors its victims. The first to do so are members of the US national rugby union team, who are in New Zealand for the start of the World Championship. The mass of suffrage follows a minute of silence in the field, before the start of the race with Ireland. Then American players take the field wearing a black arm band. President Barack Obama, who yesterday went in Arlington National Cemetery, the graves of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, send American citizens his message via radio and on you tube: "America today is stronger. And al-Qaida is on the road to defeat ". At the end of the ceremony at Ground Zero the US President said his staff was "strongly impressed" by the celebration and "particularly moved" from the reading of the names of the victims by the family. US Vice President Joe Biden, went instead to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where he fell the United Airlines Flight 93, which according to the intent of terrorists – would have to hit a symbol of American democracy, Congress.

Follow the Chronicle of celebrations:

16.43-Obama leaves the ceremony still going to go to Jfk airport in New York. Accompanied by his wife, will go to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to reach the site where Flight 93 crashed on United Airlines

16.32 – Paul Simon sings the famous "Sound of silence" to close the ceremony at Ground Zero

16.03-Ground Zero still in silence to remember the collapse of the South Tower of World Trade Center. It was the second to be affected, from 145 United Airlines flight, but the first to collapse. Then it starts reading the names of the victims, some pairs of family. Also a voice resonates in English: "Laura ti voglio tanto bene, you're always in my heart".

16.01 – in front of the Pentagon a minute's silence at 09.37 am local time, recalled the victims of the third plane hijacked, and crashed into the building. The ceremony is presided over by vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, with the participation of 187 families of victims. Obama will come later for the deposition of a Crown.

15.35 – among the applause, the former President Bush read a piece by Abraham Lincoln on the dead for the cause in the American civil war. Comparing the speeches of Bush and Obama, the first was applauded as the current President. The victims ' families have entered the Memorial at Ground Zero: many have tried the name of their loved ones written on the Stone Edge surrounding the large cascade in memory of the victims. Some stopped to caress the hand engraved name on the stone or have it repeat with pencil on a piece of paper.

14.48 – First moment of silence to remember the crash of the first aircraft against the North Tower of World trade Center. Were 8.46.

14.46-the ceremony began with the sound of bagpipes and the national anthem sung by a choir of young Brooklyn, all dressed in a blue and white, the colours chosen to symbolize the Memorial. The American President has read the Psalm 146 of the Bible: "we will have no fear. He makes wars cease until the end of the Earth: breaks the bow and shatters the spear, burn with fire-wagons ".

14.30 – Obama, Bush and their wives (all in black dress) wait in silence in front of the waterfall Memorial of 11 September.

14.14-Barack Obama, George w. Bush, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governors Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo, the former New York Governor George Pataki and former mayor Rudolph Giuliani arrived at Ground Zero, where the ceremony will begin with the list of names and surnames of the victims (2,752 persons, 90 different nationalities). The reading of names will be interrupted by four moments of silence, four minutes of silence at the two impacts on the towers and their collapse. There is no official discourse, but read some poems.