America Remembers Sept. 11
At Ground Zero, The White House, The Pentagon, Rural Pa., Elsewhere, Prayers, Silence, Bells
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Play CBS Video Video America Pays Tribute To 9/11
On the sixth anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the nation stopped to remember the more than 3,000 victims in New York and Washington.
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Video 9/11: Six Years Later
Memorial ceremonies will take place in remembrance of the tragedies that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001. Jeff Glor reports from lower Manhattan in New York City.
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Video Giuliani Praises 9/11 Heroes
CBS News RAW: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani paid tribute to the heroes of 9/11 at a memorial service held near the ground zero site in lower Manhattan.
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Paige Pagan, 10, of the Bronx, N.Y., participates in the Sept. 11 memorial service at Zuccotti Park, near ground zero, Sept. 11, 2007. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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A police and fire honor guard leads the first group of family members into ground zero, Sept. 11, 2007. (AP Photo/Stan Honda)
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A man pays his respects outside ground zero, Sept. 11, 2007. (Getty Images/Timothy A. Clary)
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A New York City police officer stands near flowers floating in a reflecting pool during a ceremony commemorating the terrorist attacks, Sept. 11, 2007. (Getty Images/Mike Stobe)
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A man's jacket, worn at the ground zero ceremonies Sept. 11, 2007, remembers the rescue workers of Sept. 11. (AP Photo/Stan Honda)
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Sept. 11 And Since
Reflecting on the events of Sept. 11, 2001, the day that changed America.
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Ground Zero Health Crisis
Aftermath of the collapse of the twin towers and victims of the toxic cloud it spawned.
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On Sacred Ground
From redevelopment to memorials, see the designs and follow the progress at the attack sites.
The moments of the attacks were remembered by bells and silence, reports CBS News correspondent Jim Taylor (audio).
The dreary, gray skies created a grim backdrop, and a sharp contrast to the clear blue of that morning in 2001.
"That day we felt isolated, but not for long and not from each other," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said as the ceremony began. "Six years have passed, and our place is still by your side."
Construction equipment now fills the vast city block where the World Trade Center once stood. The work is under way for four new towers forced the ceremony to be moved away from the twin towers' footprints for the first time.
"That vision of the clouds over Washington and New York are still haunting our psyche, and we are living in the era of homeland security in the United States right now," presidential historian Douglas Brinkley told CBS News.
As people clutched framed photos of their lost loved ones, Kathleen Mullen, whose niece Kathleen Casey died in the attacks, said the park across the street was close enough.
"Just so long as we continue to do something special every year, so you don't wake up and say, 'Oh, it's 9/11,'" she said.
Presidential politics and the health of ground zero workers loomed over the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attacks this year, perhaps more than any other Sept. 11.
"We need to put our arms around the people that have actually both suffered injury and the families that were involved. I don't think this is a short-run affair," New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine told WCBS-TV.
The firefighters and first responders who helped rescue thousands that day in 2001 and later recovered the dead were to read the victims' names for the first time. Many of those rescuers are now ill with respiratory problems and cancers themselves, and they blame the illnesses on exposure to the fallen towers' toxic dust.
Also for the first time, the name of a victim who survived that towers' collapse but died five months later of lung disease blamed on the dust she inhaled was added to the official roll.
Felicia Dunn-Jones, an attorney, was working a block from the World Trade Center. She became the 2,974th victim linked to the four attack sites where hijacked airliners hit the two towers, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pa., where federal investigators say the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 fought the hijackers on the rallying cry "Let's roll!"
"As American citizens we're all looking at our heroes," said Kay Roy, whose sister Colleen Fraser, died in the crash over Pennsylvania. "These are our heroes and I'm glad that one of my family members happens to be one of these heroes."
In the Boston Public Garden, Mayor Tom Menino placed a wreath of red, white and blue flowers at a granite memorial to the 9/11 victims. In attendance were about two dozen relatives of Bay State residents killed in the attacks. Two of the airliners used in the attacks took off from Logan Airport.
Bells from the nearby Arlington Street Church rang out "Amazing Grace" and "America the Beautiful" during the otherwise silent ceremony.
At the Pentagon, Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke at the wall where one plane crashed and told the victims' families that their loved ones will be remembered, reports CBS News correspondent Cami McCormick (audio).
"I do not know the proper words to tell you what's in my heart, what is in our hearts, what your fellow citizens are thinking today. We certainly hope that somehow these observances will help lessen your pain," he said.
At the main U.S. base at Afghanistan, service members bowed their heads in memory of the victims.
At the state capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher led a solemn ceremony to remember the victims of the terror attacks.
In New York, drums and bagpipes played as an American flag saved from the collapse was carried toward a stage.
At night, two massive beams of light will project into the sky above ground zero, reports CBS News Early Show national correspondent Jeff Glor.
Firefighters were to share the stage with former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who many victims' families and firefighters said should not speak because he is running for president. Giuliani has made his performance in the months after the 2001 terrorist attacks the cornerstone of his campaign, but he has said his appearance wasn't intended to be political.
"I was there when it happened and I've been there every year since then. If I didn't, it would be extremely unusual. As a personal matter, I wouldn't be able to live with myself," Giuliani said late last week.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, seeking the Democratic Party presidential nomination, also planned to attend the ceremonies at ground zero.

As in past years, moments of silence were planned to mark each crash and the collapse of each tower in New York.
"Six years after the event, it's still dominating our lives, because it changed the whole tone and tenor of behavior," said Brinkley. "Anybody that's going to an airport or trying to get on a subway or just simply having to walk into a business building and flashes their ID are in a way victims of what happened during 9/11."
Mail still arrives addressed to the World Trade Center, about 200 pieces a day, reports CBSNews.com's Lloyd de Vries (audio). There's less each year, and chances are it's coming from companies that still haven't updating their mailing lists. Most of it is returned to the mailers, although some former tenants pay a fee to have the incoming mail held and then pick it up.
Even though the World Trade Center ceremony gathering was in the park, thousands of family members were still allowed to descend briefly below street level to lay flowers at a spot near the twin towers' footprints. Family members upset that they might not be allowed in at all pressured the city to at least allow the short visits to the dusty bedrock.
In all, 2,974 victims were killed by the Sept. 11 attacks: 2,750 at the World Trade Center, 40 in Pennsylvania and 184 at the Pentagon. Those numbers do not include the 19 hijackers.
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See all 103 CommentsWell if you said Israel, you%u2019re wrong, that''s where they cracked a Neo Nazi group, can you believe that, in Israel, of all the places Israel, What were they thinking of, or do they think at all.
I was reading about this at: www.poconocommunitynews.com
WHY?
See for yourself...
Too many questions, Bu$hCo is involved.
http://www.prisonp
lanet.com/articles/february2007/260207bu
ilding7.htm
Moving right along... ZEITGEISTmovie.com.
I''m worried about 9/11 Part II.
The b-52 bomber loaded with nukes by ''accident" last week. You cannot, cannot accidently load up a nuke onto a plane. Do you have any idea how many procedures are involved? Some news reports that the plane started with 6 nukes. Some are saying that it landed with 5.
America is a Police State ALREADY. We are 1 (one) FAKE TERRORIST attack away from FULL TYRANNY.
educate yourself - ignore the mainstream propaganda for a few nights and watch the following:
9/11 Mysteries:
http://video.google.com/vide
oplay?docid=-6708190071483512003&q=911+m
ysteries&hl=en
Zeitgeist:
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
America: Freedom to Fascism:
http://video.google.com/videop
lay?docid=-1656880303867390173&q=freedom to fascism&total=922&start=0&num=10&so=0&ty
pe=search&plindex=0
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/photos/wtc1nenw.html
more demolition, less collapse -
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/photos/collapses.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIC0Kl4TKoU#yhvIuh-S6Qc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0TWKJCrmoQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5864an4_w6Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o2Be8RtvO4&mode=related&search=
Tuesday Aug 21, 2007
James Quintiere, Ph.D., former Chief of the Fire Science Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has called for an independent review of NIST%u2019s investigation into the collapses of the World Trade Center Towers on 9/11.
Dr. Quintiere made his plea during his presentation, %u201CQuestions on the WTC Investigations%u201D at the 2007 World Fire Safety Conference. %u201CI wish that there would be a peer review of this,%u201D he said, referring to the NIST investigation. %u201CI would really like to see someone else take a look at what they%u2019ve done; both structurally and from a fire point of view.%u201D
%u201CI think the official conclusion that NIST arrived at is questionable,%u201D explained Dr. Quintiere. %u201CLet''''s look at real alternatives that might have been the cause of the collapse of the World Trade Towers and how that relates to the official cause and what''''s the significance of one cause versus another.%u201D
Dr. Quintiere, one of the world%u2019s leading fire science researchers and safety engineers, also encouraged his audience of fellow researchers and engineers to scientifically re-examine the WTC collapses. %u201CI hope to convince you to perhaps become ''Conspiracy Theorists'', but in a proper way,%u201D he said %u2026
9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB!
READ DAVID RAY GRIFFIN''S LATEST BOMBSHELL "DEBUNKING THE 9/11 DEBUNKERS"
I''ve read some of these so-called ''inside job'' theories, and they are all bunk! I certanly am no apologist for Bush, he''s screwed up enough on his own, you don''t need to make stuff up! The only thing I can say to people who believe this ***, is you are all f-ing nuts!
Senator Mark Dayton -Member, Senate Committee on Armed Services and Homeland Security: "[NORAD] lied to the American people, they lied to Congress and they lied to your 9/11 Commission...the most gross incompetence and dereliction of responsibility and negligence"
Congressman Ron Paul -Vice Chairman of the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee: "the [9/11] investigations that have been done so far as more or less cover-up and no real explanation"
Congressman Curt Weldon: -[about the 9/11 Commission] "There''s something very sinister going on here... something desperately wrong... This involved what is right now the covering up of information that led to the deaths of 3,000 people"
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney -Member of the House Armed Services Committee: "--the [9/11] Commission ran up against obstruction by the administration and non-cooperation from government agencies... the errors and omissions immediately jumped out at us."
Director of the FBI, Louis Freeh: "[The 9/11 Commission] findings--raise serious challenges to the commission''s credibility and, if the facts prove out, might just render the Commission historically insignificant itself"
I think by "accident", they mean the plane was accidentally authorized to carry nukes when it shouldn''t have been. Nukes were not accidetnally loaded onto the plane by the ground crew, which would be near impossible.
I could not ageer more. Get a LIVE. We must have something else to do. This is getting as bad as BUSH is already.
because once you objectively look at events on that day, the official story makes no sense whatsoever -- look at the collapse of WTC7, an obvious demolition - how did two 110 story building drop at near free fall speeds if we are to believe the bogus "pancake" theory (and at the same time ignore Newton''s laws of physics) ... why was Larry Silverstein (who owned the WTC complex for a mere 50 days before the attack) never questioned by the 9/11 commission? how did a plane breach the most heavily defended building in the world? fool it''s anti-aircraft missle system? why won''t the FBI release the video from the Sheraton across the street so we can see what really hit the pentagon ... where were the wings, seats, luggage etc from the wreckage - nowhere to be found ... so many questions and NO ANSWERS - six years on and TIME FOR THE TRUTH!!
There should be an open space for the families to come, to visit their loved ones "grave" in many cases, on a yearly or more often basis.
I hope the replacement buildings are not as hideous looking.
Posted by notblue at 11:09 AM : Sep 11, 2007
One FACT that is just that a FACT... the MAN who planned and ORDERED the attack has NOT been caught AND has completely rebuilt his organization using the INCOMPETENCE of the MORON who stood at Ground ZERO and PROMISED to go after him and to continue until he was caught. WE as a nation need to deal with that LIE and the fact that the REAL Enemy is NOT in the quagmire that enemy used to recruit new members. Bush is not just a failure he''s an embarrassment to all those who lost their lives on 9/11.
The BBC announced WTC7 had fallen to the ground, 20 minutes before it did. The building is shown standing in the background, not burning, behind the reporters head.
Was the script wrong, or just the timing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=C7SwOT29gbc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Epr
isonplanet%2Ecom%2Farticles%2Ffebruary20
07%2F260207building7%2Ehtm
Just one armed pilot, air marshall, or responsible citizen on each plane could have prevented the tragedy.
Terrorists prefer unarmed victims!
Self Defense -
A-HUMAN-RIGHT.com
Posted by BareEmperor at 11:45 AM : Sep 11, 2007
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sorry, liberals DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ANY ANSWERS TO THIER QUESTIONS if it DOES NOT AGREE WITH WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR. (If it does not have that conspriacy feel to it.....THEN ITS NOT AN ANSWER..you get a looser b rated washed up hollywood comedian to write a book that has martians and cra*p like that in it..ITS THE TRUTH)
SIMPLE AS THAT..
The tale of shady Chinese Clinton donors avoiding U.S. justice is a familiar one that dates back to the 1996 Clinton-Gore fundraising scandal known as Chinagate. The Clintons took millions in laundered foreign campaign donations from Chinese Communists in exchange for liberalizing trade policy with China, dropping pending indictments against influential Chinese figures, spots on a U.S. trade mission and overnight stays at the White House.
Many of the Chinagate donors were successfully prosecuted even though Clinton Attorney General Janet Reno blocked investigators%u2019 efforts at the Justice Department. More than 100 people connected to the fundraising scandal fled the country, however. Norman Hsu seems to be following their lead.
http://www.corruptionchronicles.com/2007/09/hillary_donor_flees_like_china.html
and you thought gonzales was bad...
The fact that we are more venerable today than we were in 2001 thanks to the disasterous policies of our ever clueless leader. He acts like he really cares about the people directly effected by 9-11 and he does not.
He only uses this occasion as a propaganda piece to further his already failed policies in Iraq, like Iraq had ANYTHING to do with 9-11.
What an ***.
It''s started to traumatise the couragous hero''s who made a fortune off this.
Posted by king77shaw at 11:39 AM : Sep 11, 2007
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Good for you! The head of the largest survivors group doesn''t buy into the official lie and no one with an ounce of integrity and intellect could buy into the Official 9-11 Fairy Tale.
The thermate cut columns in this picture are eloquent testimony in refutation of the Washington Regime''s 9-11 Lie.
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/341238.shtml?discuss
The loathsome trash who accuse 9-11 Truthers of siding with Osama or who bleat about ''liberals'' are the same vacuous trash who bought into the Regime''s lies regarding Iraqi WMDs and OBL connections. They absolutely refuse to face the facts illustrated in this picture and found in the work of Dr. S. Jones. They are the followers of Rush, the impotent drug addict, Bill O''Reilly, the phone *** pervert and harrasser...of Tom Foly, Senator Craig and the like...They cannot think for themselves.
I doubt that the Bush/Cheney Axis (of evil) conceived, planned, and implemented 9-11. They''re not that clever and a conspiracy of that magnitude would be about impossible to keep quiet - especially after the fact. Granted Cheney has claimed, more than once, that America needed another "Pearl Harbor". Also granted 9-11 presented a perfect opportunity for His Bushness to galvanize American support for military adventurism in the Middle East solely for his profit and that of his corporate sponsers. But he could have accomplished that much with a much smaller and less costly "incident" (one example would be using only one airliner and flying it into the Statue of Liberty). 9-11 as an inside job is not impossible but unlikely...
What IS likely is our less-than-angelic president became aware of 9-11 in its early stages and did as much as he could, without being blatant to insure the plot was a success. Hindsight is a great illuminator and in hindsight, all the official obstruction and inaction prior to 9-11 and the administration''s stonwalling of the investigation(s) afterward makes it very easy to assume His Bushness had prior knowledge of the attack and chose to allow it to happen.
People don''t just get over a catalyzing occurrance like 9/11. You aren''t running around telling people to get over Pearl Harbor, or the birth of Christ, so why do you have such a need to have the USA forget Bu$hCo''s only triumph?
I''m thinking you are protesting too loudly... Why?
I am surprised you NeoCons aren''t trumpeting your successful coup in the newspapers you own. The rest of the nation knows Cheney piloted 9/11 from his bunker...
So thank you.
There are too many loose ends to the presidents NeoCon wet dream about some cave dweller overwhelming all our military strength and planning.
My own Representitive, Norm Minetta sat at Cheneys side while he ran the 9/11 wargames from a bunker. He testified to the 9/11 Committee, and they decided to buy Gordon Libbey''s version of reality over Minettas...
Here is some footage from BBC describing the destruction of WTC7, while it stands in the background... poor timing, or poor script?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7SwOT29gbc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eprisonplanet%2Ecom%2Farticles%2Ffebruary2007%2F260207building7%2Ehtm
Posted by LloydBest1 at 12:06 PM : Sep 11, 2007
There were death camps in Germany and no one was out rioting in the streets. They were out fighting wars to make more.
America believes that anything goes to make money or win at anything. To have the most wealth and trophies to show off and the largest pool of submissive twits at your disposal is hip.
Slowly you are making excuses and playing the blame game, because it might be you and your building or you are the victim of the swindle.
the plane to LA LA Land is now boarding at gate 911
the plane to LA LA Land is now boarding at gate 911
Posted by nexgen99 at 12:34 PM : Sep 11, 2007
Well put on your foil hat and jump in, nexbozo666
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/bomber/il-28-DFST8503641_JPG.jpg
Posted by zootallures2 at 12:22 PM : Sep 11, 2007
Exactly who are we talking about that''s playing the blame game? Before you start calling the shots like that, try noticing that you''re doing the very same thing you''re claiming all Americans do. Just pointing that out.
Posted by irishbitch11 at 12:57 PM : Sep 11, 2007
Obviously. That''s the entire democrap plan for stabbing our troops in the back whilst tearing down Bush. All for the sake of acquiring power in ''08. Completely dishonorable and shameless. They should all be shot for treason.
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