US marks 22 years since 9/11 with tributes and tears, from ground zero to Alaska

Diane Massaroli holds a picture of her late husband, Michael Massaroli, before the commemoration ceremony of the September 11 attacks (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

From Ground Zero to small towns, Americans looked back Monday on 9/11 with silence, tearful words and appeals to teach younger generations about the terror attacks that struck the nation exactly 22 years before.

“For those of us who lost people on that day, that day is still happening. Everybody else moves on and you find a way to go forward, but that day is always happening for you,” Edward Edelman said as he arrived at New York’s World Trade Centre to remember his brother-in-law, Daniel McGinley.