The City of Sequim and first responders host a special 9/11 remembrance ceremony, starting at 7:45 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 10, on the Sequim Civic Center Plaza, 152 W. Cedar St. The event recognizes the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., and an intended attack by a fourth plane that crashed into an empty field in western Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.

Marc Abshire, a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, will be the keynote speaker. He was the speechwriter for the Secretary of the Air Force and was in the Pentagon when the building was attacked in 2001. An Olympic Peninsula native, Abshire serves as executive director of the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce.

On Saturday, Sept. 11, the bell on the Civic Center Plaza will toll one time for each of the plane attacks.

The bell will toll at:

• 5:46 a.m. — Flight 11 strikes the north tower of the World Trade Center.

6:03 a.m. — Flight 175 strikes the south tower of the World Trade Center.

6:37 a.m. — Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon as passengers, including an off-duty police officer, fight with the terrorist pilot.

7:03 a.m. — Flight 93 crashes in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after passengers and crew storm the cockpit.