The STRAT Hotel Honors Lives Lost On 9/11 With Annual Climb
This weekend, the STRAT Hotel, Casino & Tower honored the lives lost during 9/11 with their annual climb. Today marks the 22nd anniversary of the tragic 9/11 attack on the…
This weekend, the STRAT Hotel, Casino & Tower honored the lives lost during 9/11 with their annual climb.
Today marks the 22nd anniversary of the tragic 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001. 2,977 people lost their lives that day, usatoday.com reported. 2,753 of those lives were at the Twin Towers and 184 at the Pentagon. The final 40 were the passengers on Flight 93, which crash landed in Pennsylvania after civilians tried to overtake hijackers on the plane.
The tragedy continues for the families of about 1,10o victims who have not yet been identified, usatoday.com reported. That's about 40 percent of the people lost. DNA testing is ongoing in attempts to name those individuals and bring closure to their families. USA Today quoted the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner regarding the investigation. Saying it is the "largest and most complex forensic investigation in the history of the United States."
Details of the climb at the STRAT Hotel, Casino & Tower.
This past Saturday in Las Vegas, many gathered at the STRAT Hotel, Casino & Tower on the Las Vegas Strip to honor the lives lost on September 11, 2001. More than 340 active firefighters, police, EMT and military personnel gathered at the bottom of the STRAT Tower in the early hours of the morning. Together they climbed the 1,455 steps to the top of the STRAT.
The firefighters were in full gear. And each climber wore a lanyard showing a photo of a fallen firefighter, representing those who were lost that day. The total number of firefighters who lost their lives on 9/11 was 343, usatoday.com reported.
Just before the climb, there was an Honor Guard presentation and moment of silence. After the climb, participants joined with their family and friends to raise a glass, at PT’s Wings & Sports, in memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice 22 years ago.
Never forget.
Gallery 9/11: Never Forget
"Never forget." A phrase once muttered has given some feelings of terror and heartbreak.
As the world watched hijacked planes crash in various locations around the U.S. most could do nothing more than watch.
20 years later, still unable to change the past, we can do nothing more than observe the tragedy that happened.
Continuing to honor the innocent lives lost and salute the hero's who sprung into action when called upon; we commemorate the fallen and bravery of these individuals.
We have created a photo gallery so we may...
"Never forget."
The Twin Towers
[Peter Keegan] / [Stringer] via Getty ImagesThe twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, designed by American architect Minoru Yamasaki, 1974. (Photo by Peter Keegan/Keystone/Getty Images)
September 11 Retrospective
[Spencer Platt] / [Staff] via Getty ImagesNEW YORk - SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: (SEPTEMBER 11 RETROSPECTIVE) A fiery blasts rocks the south tower of the World Trade Center as the hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston crashes into the building September 11, 2001 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
World Trade Center Attacked by Airplane
[Spencer Platt] / [Staff] via Getty Images394261 28: Police escort a civilian from the scene of the collapse of a tower of the World Trade Center September 11, 2001 in New York City after two airplanes slammed into the twin towers in an alleged terrorist attack. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
World Trade Center Hit by Two Planes
[Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora] / [Stringer] via Getty Images394263 15: (PUERTO RICO OUT) The World Trade Center burns after two planes hit it September 11, 2001 in New York City. (Photo by Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images)
World Trade Center Attacked
[Mario Tama] / [Staff] via Getty Images394261 45: People evacuate the area around the World Trade Center after it was hit by two planes September 11, 2001 in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
September 11 Retrospective
[Robert Giroux] / [Staff] via Getty ImagesNEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: (SEPTEMBER 11 RETROSPECTIVE) Smoke pours from the twin towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by two hijacked airliners in a terrorist attack September 11, 2001 in New York City. (Photo by Robert Giroux/Getty Images)
World Trade Center Hit by Two Planes
[Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora] / [Angela Jimenez] / [Stringer] via Getty Images394263 08: (PUERTO RICO OUT/GERMANY OUT) A survivor sits outside the World Trade Center after two planes hit the building September 11, 2001 in New York City. (Photo by Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images)
World Trade Center Attacked
[Mario Tama] / [Staff] via Getty Images394261 37: A bicyle sits covered with sediment after the World Trade Center was hit two planes September 11, 2001 in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
New York City Rescue Effort at the World Trade Center
[Ron Agam] / [Stringer] via Getty Images394277 16: New York City firefighters work at the World Trade Center after two hijacked planes crashed into the Twin Towers September 11, 2001 in New York. (Photo by Ron Agam/Getty Images)
Annual Tribute In Light Marks Anniversary Of Attacks On The World Trade Center's Twin Towers
[Spencer Platt] / [Staff] via Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 11: The 'Tribute in Light' memorial lights up lower Manhattan near One World Trade Center on September 11, 2018 in New York City. The tribute at the site of the World Trade Center towers has been an annual event in New York since March 11, 2002. Throughout the country services are being held to remember the 2,977 people who were killed in New York, the Pentagon and rural Pennsylvania in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
