9/11 attack victims honored six years later

NEW YORK-Relatives of Sept. 11 victims bowed their heads in silence Tuesday to mark the moments exactly six years earlier when hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center,the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. The dreary 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, and work is under way for four new towers, forcing the ceremony to be moved away from the twin towers' footprints for the first time.Kathleen Mullen, whose niece Kathleen Casey died in the attacks, said the park is 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."We're still very much affected by it on a daily basis," said Tania Garcia, whose sister Marlyn was killed. "It's an open wound, and every year that passes by just get worse and worse and worse."Presidential politics and the health of ground zero workers loomed over the anniversary of the terrorist attacks this year, perhaps more than at any other September 11.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.
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