Richard “Mom and Dad ache for you every minute,” Linda Giammona-Julian said to her brother,
Vincent Giammona, one of 343 firefighters killed. “We love you and we miss you; til we meet again.”
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice read a poem by.
Christina Rossetti after the second moment of silence
Gov. George E. Pataki, former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and New Jersey Acting Gov.
“We all stand together to help each list to data other and to help those who need our help in the future,”
Giuliani said. “We remember forever all the brothers and sisters that we lost on that day.”
In Washington, President Bush marked the anniversary with his wife on the South Lawn,
and thousands of people marched in remembrance of the attacks and in tribute to troops fighting overseas.
In southwestern Pennsylvania, about 1,000
People attended a memorial service in the field where Flight 93 crashed after it was hijacked by terrorists.
“The first heroes of 9/11 were here,” said Brian smart send to send emails individually Rohrbaugh, who brought his wife and young
children to remember the 40 passengers and crew who died as they struggled with hijackers for control of the plane.
Parents and grandparents read the victims’ names at ground zero last year, while children’s voices were heard in 2003. A selection of politicians, relatives and others read the names
on the first anniversary.
Two light beams inspired by the twin towers were to shoot skyward Sunday night in an echo of the towers’ silhouette. The “Tribute in Light” will fade away at dawn on Monday.
New Yorkers In New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — Firefighters paused Sunday in their recovery work for
Hurricane Katrina to observe the fourth sale leads anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks that killed their brethren in New York.