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US falls silent as September 11 anniversary marked
New York, Sept 11: The United States marked the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks today with a minute of silence at 8:46 am, local time, (1816 IST), the moment the first hijacked airliner slammed into New York`s World Trade Center.
New York, Sept 11: The United States marked the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks today with a minute of silence at 8:46 am, local time, (1816 IST), the
moment the first hijacked airliner slammed into New York's World Trade Center.
Under brilliant blue skies, thousands gathered at "Ground Zero" in Lower Manhattan fell totally silent as they remembered the 2,792 people who died there two years earlier
in the worst terrorist strike in US history.
President George W Bush also marked the minute of silence and prayer at a ceremony on the White House lawn in Washington. In a brief address at Ground Zero, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke of the city's sense of mourning, mixed with pride and the resolve to move forward.
"Our faces and hopes turn towards the future," Bloomberg said. "In keeping with this the children who lost loved ones will lead our ceremonies. It is in them that the spirit of New York lives, carrying both our deepest memories and the bright promise of tomorrow," he added.
After the minute's silence, 200 children who lost family members in the attack began reading the names of all those who died.
Across New York, there were quiet reminders of the anniversary on nearly every corner, with the red, white and blue of the American flag omnipresent, pasted in apartment windows or fluttering outside office buildings and shops. Bureau Report
President George W Bush also marked the minute of silence and prayer at a ceremony on the White House lawn in Washington. In a brief address at Ground Zero, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke of the city's sense of mourning, mixed with pride and the resolve to move forward.
"Our faces and hopes turn towards the future," Bloomberg said. "In keeping with this the children who lost loved ones will lead our ceremonies. It is in them that the spirit of New York lives, carrying both our deepest memories and the bright promise of tomorrow," he added.
After the minute's silence, 200 children who lost family members in the attack began reading the names of all those who died.
Across New York, there were quiet reminders of the anniversary on nearly every corner, with the red, white and blue of the American flag omnipresent, pasted in apartment windows or fluttering outside office buildings and shops. Bureau Report