An American flag is unfurled on the field prior to the Oklahoma-Houston game in Norman, Okla., Sept. 11, 2004, to commemorate the loss of innocent civilians, public servants and allied combatants on and since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Arizona
Kim Baxendell walks through the U.S. flags at the Healing Field exhibit honoring the victims of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, at Tempe Town Lake in Tempe, Ariz., Sept. 11, 2004.
Seattle
Players and coaches from the Seattle Mariners stand on the baseline with firefighters and other officials during a moment of silence in memory of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, prior to a game against the Boston Red Sox at Safeco Field in Seattle, Sept. 11, 2004.
Massachusetts
Susan Retik, left, and Patti Quigley, right, who both lost their husbands on Sept. 11, celebrate after completing a 250-mile bicycle ride from Ground Zero in New York to Boston, Sept. 11, 2004. Money raised from the ride will go to Beyond the 11th, a nonprofit organization the women founded to help widows affected by war and terrorism in other countries.
Montana
Fred Gilrath tends to a giant American flag on the Rimrocks overlooking Billings, Mont., Sept. 11, 2004.
New York
Family members of Sept. 11 victims place flowers at memorial to the to those who died during the 1993 and 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, Sept. 11, 2004, in the Staten Island borough of New York.
Los Angeles
An unidentified mother sobs as she holds her son during an Interfaith Remembrance Ceremony for the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Sept. 11, 2004, at the Frank Hotchkin Memorial Training Center in Los Angeles.
South Carolina
Jay Walker, the state director of Buglers Across America, performs "Taps" in commemoration of the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, aboard the Coast Guard cutter Ingham at Patriot's Point in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., Sept., 11, 2004.
Illinois
A painted flag and the words "Proud To Be An American....Gone but Not Forgotten..Some Gave All" appear on the side of a barn on the property of E.G. Blomenkamp along Illinois Highway 15 near Freeburg, Ill. Sept. 11, 2004.
Kansas
Dodge City Fire Dept. Chief Officer Kevin Norton rings the four-fives, a code signaling a lost firefighter, during a Sept. 11 memorial ceremony at the Liberty Garden in Dodge City, Kan., Sept. 11, 2004.
Louisiana
Roger Songe, president, founder and designer of Veterans Park in Houma, La., prepares to grout one of two pedestals which hold cement eagles, Sept. 8, 2004. The two structures symbolize the Trade Center Towers and are dedicated to the victims of Sept. 11 and to the men and women who are serving the armed services.
West Virginia
Students from Orchard View Intermediate School wave U.S. flags Sept. 10, 2004 in Martinsburg, W.Va., during a memorial service for the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Connecticut
Christopher Gardner, 6, right, of Darien, Conn., places flowers on his father's memorial stone Sept. 9, 2004, at Sherwood Island State Park in Westport, Conn. Christopher S. Gardner, 36, of Darien, Conn., was killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York.
Connecticut
Bryn Costello, 14, of Milford, Conn., is comforted by her mother, Maura, during the annual memorial service in Westport, Conn., for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The Costellos attended the event at Sherwood Island State Park in memory of Raymond Metz III, Maura Costello's brother-in-law.
New Mexico
Burt Schwartz hangs up the artwork for the "5,000 Flowers" exhibit Sept. 9, 2004, at Branigan Memorial Library in Las Cruces, N.M. "Flowers are symbols of our remembrance of the lives lost on Sept. 11," exhibit coordinator Vera Schwartz said, referring to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Texas
Army Spc. Luciano Vera from Fort Bliss, Texas, joins Rojas Elementary School teacher Blanca Sarrach and students in saluting the flag during the school's Celebration of Heroes and Tribute to First Responders Sept. 9, 2004, in Socorro, Texas. Children memorialized those who died Sept. 11, 2001, while honoring people who respond to emergencies.
Mississippi
Master Sgt. Cornell Nelson, foreground, of The University of Southern Mississippi Army ROTC, salutes as the colors are presented Sept. 9, 2004, during the third annual Sept. 11 memorial service on the Southern Miss campus in Hattiesburg, Miss. hosted by the university's Student Government Association.
London
The U.S. Charge d'Affaires David Johnson prepares to lay a wreath during a ceremony in the Memorial Gardens, Grosvenor Square in central London, Sept. 10, 2004, to commemorate the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Iraq
Coalition soldiers commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at a ceremony inside one of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's palaces in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 11, 2004.
Afghanistan
U.S. Army Capt. Norka Rojas cries during a memorial ceremony at Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 11, 2004. A ceremony was held at the base to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.