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JNew York (AP>- At ground zero, the
names took precedence, 2,801 of them read
aloud, from Gordon Aamoth Jr. to Igor
Zukelman. Patriotic resolve held sway at the
Pentagon. And in a field near Shanksville,
Pa., grief was partially offset by pride.
■At each of the three sites, and in commu
nities across the nation and world
Wednesday, Americans and their allies reliv
ed the staggering events of one year ago and
remembered those who died.
■ “They were our neighbors, our husbands,
oui children, our sisters, our brothers and our
wives. They were our countrymen and our
friends. They were us,” New York Mayor
Michael Bloomberg told grieving families at
the site of the World Trade Center.
■ New York’s roll call of the dead and miss
ing began after a moment of silence at 8:46
a.m. EDT, the time when the first terrorist-
piloted plane struck the trade center. It took
211/2 hours — 50 minutes longer than
pL i ned — for 197 readers to complete the
lisi of names.
■ While wistful cello music accompanied
the ground zero ceremony, a booming rendi
tion of the national anthem set the tone for
commemorations at the Pentagon, where 184
people died when American Flight 77
smashed into the building.
■ “Though they died in tragedy, they did
noi die in vain,” declared President Bush, a
fist clenched for emphasis. “As long as ter
rorists and dictators plot against our lives and
our liberty, they will be opposed by the
United States Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Air
Force and Marines!”
■ After the Pentagon ceremony. Bush flew
tol southwest Pennsylvania to join commem
orations for the 40 people killed when
United Flight 93 crashed in a field near
Shanksville. The passengers and crew were
hailed by Homeland Security Director Tom
Ridge as heroic “citizen-soldiers” for strug
gling to take back their hijacked plane and
avert a possible attack on the Capitol or
W! tile House.
I “If we learn nothing else from this
tragedy, we learn that life is short and there
is no time for hate,” said Sandy Dahl, the
wife of Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl.
Bush laid a wreath in Shanksville, then
another at ground zero after an afternoon
flight to New York. Carrying the badge of a
fallen Port Authority police officer, the pres
ident and First Lady Laura Bush lingered at
the site, greeting and comforting relatives of
Sept. 11 victims.
Their losses were at the core of the speech
to the nation Bush was to give later
Wednesday from Ellis Island, with the Statue
of Liberty as a backdrop.
“For those who lost loved ones, it has
been a year of sorrow, of empty places, of
newborn children who will never know their
fathers here on earth,” Bush said in his pre
pared remarks.
“For all Americans, it has been a year of
adjustment — of coming to terms with the
difficult knowledge that our nation has deter
mined enemies, and that we are not invulner
able to their attacks.”
They were our neighbors,
our husbands, our children,
our sisters, our brothers and
our wives. They were our
countrymen and our jriends.
They were us.
—Michael Bloomberg
New York Mayor
Far from the sites where the hijacked
planes crashed, Americans and well-wishers
from other nations found myriad ways to
observe the anniversary. In addition to
repeated moments of silence, church bells
tolled, sirens sounded, musicians performed,
and religious leaders groped to find words
suitable to the occasion.
“No situation of hurt, no philosophy or
religion can ever justify such a grave offense
on human life and dignity,” Pope John Paul
II said at the Vatican. He exhorted the world
to heal injustices that cause explosive
hatreds.
Among the many places to accommodate
memorial services were U.S. military bases
in Afghanistan.
“There isn’t a place I’d rather be or a job
I’d rather be doing,” said Lt. Col. Tim
Strasburger, an Air Force pilot on duty in
Kandahar.
At London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, 3,000
white rose petals fluttered down from the
dome — one for each victim who died in the
attacks. In Paris, two powerful beams of light
were projected into the sky. In Pisa, Italy, a
white banner placed by the Leaning Tower
read: “From the tower to the towers. Sept.
11, 2002. Memory, solidarity and peace.”
At the United Nations, Secretary-General
Kofi Annan presided over an international
memorial service.
“More than 90 nations lost sons and
daughters of their own — murdered that day,
for no other reason than they had chosen to
live in this country,” he said. “Today, we
come together as a world community because
we were attacked as a world community.”
Many Americans went to work or to
school, but it was far from business as usual.
Telemarketers cut back on their phone calls,
politicians kept their campaign ads off the
air, some dealers at a casino in Reno, Nev.,
even held their cards for a moment in a ges
ture of respect.
In New Hampshire, trees were planted
outside the post offices in the seven towns
where Sept. 11 victims had lived. And at
E.D. Nixon Elementary School in
Montgomery, Ala., sixth-graders baked
cookies for local firefighters
Though the government had raised the
terror alert to its second highest level, based
on new information of possible strikes, no
serious incidents were reported.
Though federal officials told Americans
to go ahead with their plans for the day,
many Americans were apprehensive about
boarding airplanes. A spokeswoman at
Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport,
one of the country’s busiest, estimated that
passenger traffic was down by more than 50
percent.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Building evacuated
after man says he is
installing a bomb
■ COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A
41-story state office tower that
houses the Ohio Supreme Court
was evacuated for about two
hours Wednesday after dogs
detected a scent of explosives
and a man told a state worker,
"I'm here to install a bomb," the
State Highway Patrol said.
No explosives were found at
the James A. Rhodes State
Office Tower.
I Patrol Lt. Col. Paul McClellan
said the scent of material that
can be used to make a bomb
was detected in a van parked at
a loading dock in the rear of the
building, which is across the
street from the Statehouse.
Authorities had not identified
the material.
The van driver was taken into
custody and charged with
inducing panic.
McClellan said a state
employee saw a man who
looked out of place on the
28th floor, which houses per
sonnel offices, and asked him
what he was doing. The man
said he was there to "install a
bomb," McClellan said.
Fisherman infects 22
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