Posted on 12/11/2001 3:52:30 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
Three months later...
Cheryl Burgmaier looks for the name of her uncle, who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center in September, among thousands of luminarias at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, N.M., Monday, Dec. 10, 2001. Luminarias with the names of the victims of the attacks on Sept. 11 as well as U.S. soldiers who died in Afghanistan will be lit every night until Jan. 2, 2002.
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Two-year-old Patricia Smith holds her father's gloved hand after accepting the New York Police Department's highest honor, the Medal of Honor, posthumously for her mother Moira Smith, a victim of the World Trade Center attacks, December 4, 2001 in New York. Smith's husband (L) is also a police officer. REUTERS/POOL/Kathy Willens
An honor guard stands by as the casket of Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Petithory is unloaded from plane at the Albany International Airport in Albany, N.Y., Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2001. Petithory, killed in Afghanistan last week, will be buried in his hometown of Cheshire, Mass. Photo by Tim Roske (AP)
TOKYO-(AP) People united across the world Tuesday to reflect on the unforgettable - the moment three months ago when terrorists attacked America.
Along with the enduring sorrow, there was determination to go on with life as normal to show the terrorists are losing and that freedom endures amid grief and adversity.
"I feel a lot of anxiety, but I'm not allowing it to change my everyday life," 27-year-old civil servant Katsuhiro Takahashi said as he shopped in Tokyo's upscale Ginza district.
More than 70 countries that lost citizens in the attacks have answered a call from President Bush to organize memorials and play their national anthems in tribute to the victims Tuesday.
In Australia, diplomats gathered at the residence of U.S. Ambassador Tom Schieffer and mourned the deaths by planting a symbol of life: an oak sapling descended from a tree Eleanor Roosevelt planted at the American Embassy in 1943. A plaque at the base said: "September 11, 2001, we will remember them."
"This morning's ceremony should be a small reminder to all of us that we continue to focus our minds, that we don't forget those horrific images," said acting Australian Foreign Minister Mark Vaile.
In Tokyo, senior Japanese government officials joined U.S. Embassy staff at Ambassador Howard Baker's residence to listen to a U.S. Air Force choir sing the American and Japanese national anthems.
"I, myself, and the people of Japan are together with President George W. Bush and the people of the United States in that we shall never forget the Sept. 11 tragedy," Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said in a statement.
The Vatican was to mark the three months with a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Edmund Szoka, an American. Among those expected to attend was the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, Jim Nicholson.
At the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, about 300 staff observed a minute of silence in a morning ceremony.
At the White House, Bush was to lead the playing of the national anthem at 8:46 a.m. EST - the moment the first plane hit the World Trade Center - in a ceremony broadcast live on the White House Web site.
The Pentagon was to hold a ceremony at the moment of the Washington attack.
The victims of the attacks were to be remembered even in outer space: NASA was planning a special event on the International Space Station.
While expressions of sympathy with the terrorism victims were universal, there were still questions Tuesday about the U.S.-led attacks meant to avenge the attacks.
"I wish the United States will stop the war now that they have clearly won against Afghanistan," said Yoon Sun-jeong, a 30-year-old broadcasting company employee in South Korea.
For many, Dec. 11 was a day to pause and take account of the changes in the world since the attacks, with the reactions ranging from the concrete to the philosophical. Japanese executive Nobuko Hagiwara lamented a canceled trip to Canada, while retired tea ceremony master Hiroshi Suzuki expressed solidarity with the United States' sorrow.
"Gloom has fallen upon all of our souls," Suzuki said.
...The Enemy Within CLINTONS and their decades-long Terrorist Groups of this World.
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