Ten-year-old Danielle Riches read off some of the names of the dead at the Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony last year, strangers who were killed before she was born.

The final name she recited was of the man whose life and loss are always present in her family, her uncle, Jimmy Riches, a New York City firefighter who died trying to save others.

“Uncle Jimmy, we talk about you all the time and how you sounded so amazing,” she said. “I wish I could have met you.”

On Thursday, for the 24th time, survivors and victims of the terrorism attacks will gather at New York’s 9/11 Memorial and Museum for the annual rite of remembrance, an hourslong recitation of nearly 3,000 names at the site known as ground zero.

There will be bagpipes, the national anthem and moments of silence. Relatives of the dead will take turns in the recitation.