9/11 anniversary live updates: Memorial ceremonies underway in New York and Pennsylvania

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Follow live coverage of 9/11 memorial ceremonies 25 years later as Americans reflect on the attacks.

At the exact moment the first plane hit struck the World Trade Center 25 years ago, today Army Staff Sergeant Victor DeJesus pulled out his trumpet and played taps for the victims of 9/11.

But he did so at 2:46 p.m. Polish time, from the tower of St. Mary’s Basilica in the ancient city of Kraków, Polish Radio reported .

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DeJesus, a trumpeter from the 1st Infantry Division U.S. Army band, was dressed in uniform when he played the mournful melody that is performed, mostly, to honor fallen service members.

It also prompted many Poles on the ground to stop and check their watches. Because every hour, on the hour, each day from this same tower, a bugler plays what is known as the hejnał four times.

That broken melody is played in memory of a 13 th century trumpeter who sounded the alarm when he spotted Mongol invaders approaching the city but was killed in mid-song when an arrow pierced his throat.

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro urged Americans to be "active" in the effort to educate people who were either too young to remember the terrorist attacks of 9/11 or were not born yet.

"Our remembrance must be active. There are about 100 million Americans today who either weren’t born on 9/11, or who are too young to remember that day," Shapiro said at remarks at the ceremony honoring the victims of United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. "We owe it to those young Americans and to generations of Americans to come to preserve the memory of that day, the 2,977 people who were killed.”

He also paid tribute to the flight's brave passengers and crew whose actions on board prevented the hijackers from reaching its intended target, thought to be the U.S. Capitol.

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"With faith in one another, faith in their God, and a deep abiding faith to this country, they organized, they mobilized, and they summoned the courage to stare evil in the face and fight back. Their actions saved countless lives," he said.

Shapiro, a Democrat and potential 2028 presidential contender, noted that their actions that day might have saved his life as he had been working at the Capitol complex. "I was watching the events unfold from my office on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. In the years since, I’ve reflected on how their bravery may have even saved my life.”

A moment of silence was held near ground zero in honor of those who have been affected by the health-related effects of the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York.

3h ago / 1:05 PM EDT 9/11 victim's son says tragedy should not be used to 'spread hate' 9/11 victim's son says the tragedy should not be used to 'spread hate' 01:08 In seemingly unscripted remarks at the ground zero memorial, the son of a Staten Island man killed on 9/11 urged people nationwide to “please stop” using victims’ memories to “spread hate.”

“I think the one parting thing I want to leave everyone with is that you do my dad’s legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate,” said Michael Massaroli Jr., the son of Michael Massaroli, who was an employee at Cantor Fitzgerald.

“We have seen a medley of people come up today, of all races, all religions, all creeds, and this tragedy is just that — it’s a tragedy,” Massaroli. “I’ve had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don’t look like them, and that’s wrong, and that does no honor to the victims here.”

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