All trains and buses in the Washington metropolitan area are scheduled to stop moving for one minute Thursday morning in remembrance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks 25 years ago.
The planned moment of silence is set to start at 9:37 a.m. Friday, the time that one of the four airplanes hijacked by Islamic terrorists struck the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
Randy Clarke, the general manager of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, clarified that the train operators and bus drivers will stop at a safe location while participating in the moment of silence.
“We’re not going to stop a bus at a light or in the middle of an intersection. They’re going to get to where it’s a safe place to do a moment of silence,” Clarke said Thursday.
“We think it’s really an important thing to show how much Metro remembers our colleagues and what they did, and also just the significance in our country,” he added. “We’re the national capital, and our capital got attacked.”
The attack on the Pentagon killed 184 people. In total, there were nearly 3,000 deaths across New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
PENTAGON 9/11 VISITOR CENTER TO BREAK GROUND DAY AFTER 25TH ANNIVERSARY
In 2008, a memorial was set up at the Pentagon in honor of the lives lost on American Airlines Flight 77.
The Pentagon is the only of the three attack sites that still does not have a visitor center or museum. The planned 9/11 Pentagon Memorial Visitor Education Center is slated to open in 2029. A groundbreaking ceremony for the project is scheduled for Saturday, one day after the 25th anniversary.