Nineteen years after the 9/11 terror attacks, the COVID-19 pandemic realigned how Americans remembered the day, but did not end up putting a stop to the ceremonies.

In Massapequa Park, a flyover paid tribute to those lost. Residents in masks gathered at the Towers to Freedom Military Monument.

Meanwhile, signs of hope rooted up in Riverhead. The Suffolk Sheriff's Office and the FealGood Foundation joined together to plan a "survivor tree."

The callery pear tree is a seedling from a tree that withstood the terror attacks at the World Trade Center.

"It really was a pleasure and tribute to us to be able to received the seedlings from a tree that survived the devastation at Ground Zero," says Suffolk Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. "We had over 200 staff that not only responded on 9/11, but in the days thereafter."

And in Hauppauge, the county held a virtual ceremony, with the names of each Suffolk life lost read aloud.