Somber, emotional 9/11 ceremony held in lower Manhattan .

-다음기사는 AP통신및 기타 취재원에의해 작성되었으며, enr의 website에 게재된 내용으로,사실적 가치를 공감하고 서로 나눔이 바람직하다고 사료되 는 내용이기에 이를 공지하니 혜량하시기 바랍니다. Somber, emotional 9/11 ceremony held in lower Manhattan September 11, 2007 John Valenti 9월 11일 뉴욕 맨하튼에는 비가내렸나 봅니다. ... Sep. 11--Standing amid a field of umbrellas raised against raining skies, mourners sang along with members of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus in a rendition of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" as the somber ceremony to honor those killed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, drew to a close just after noon Tuesday near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. Many in the crowd of thousands clutched pictures of loved ones lost in the attacks. Most cried. And then three trumpeters -- one each from the NYPD, FDNY and Port Authority Police -- played taps. It was an emotional end to an emotional day. A day of reflection. A day of remembrance. A day of mourning the 2,750 killed when terrorists flew two hijacked airliners into the Twin Towers, toppling them both in one of the darkest days in U.S. history six years ago. "On that day we felt isolated," New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, after the scarred and battle-torn flag that had flown at the World Trade Center was carried on-stage at Zuccotti Park moments before the annual commemoration ceremonies began at about 8:40 a.m. "But not for long," the mayor told the gathering. "And not from each other . . . Six years have passed and our place is still by your side." Quoting Herman Melville, Bloomberg told mourners: "We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads." It was shortly after dawn that families, friends and other mourners began to gather near the park, located at Liberty Street and Trinity Place in the shadow of where the Twin Towers once stood. Some carried umbrellas decorated with American flags. Some had laminated pictures of loved ones pinned to their shirts. Most carried photos of someone lost in the attacks. The ceremony marked the first time since the attacks that Sept. 11 fell on a Tuesday. It was also the first time it rained on the commemoration ceremonies, making the occasion seem even more somber, like teardrops on the city. There was a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. -- the time the first hijacked jetliner struck the North Tower -- and it was later followed throughout the commemoration by three other moments of silence: One at 9:03 a.m. to mark the plane that hit the South Tower, one at 9:59 a.m. when the South Tower fell and the last at 10:29 a.m. to mark the fall of the North Tower. Throughout the morning, the names of the fallen were read aloud by those who had served as 9/11 emergency responders -- all as music played and bells tolled at houses of worship around New York City. "No man is an island, entire of itself," Gov. Eliot Spitzer said, quoting from "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by John Donne. "Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main . . . Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." As the governor spoke, workers at One Liberty Plaza stood at fogged windows, looking on. All around the site of the commemoration were moving reminders of the lost. One wreath was from Engine 235, Battalion 57, FDNY. Photos of six fallen firefighters were attached to it. The New York Fire Department lost 343 firefighters in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Brooklyn-based Engine 235, Battalion 57, lost those six -- the Monroe Six. Next to the wreath a navy blue T-shirt commemorated their loss, reading simply: "In Memory of the Monroe Six." These were among the somber, chilling reminders that could be found anywhere and everywhere you looked. "We're here to respect the people who were lost," Fred Morrone, 50, of Lindhurst, N.J., said as he stood in the rain. Morrone is a member of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey pipe and drum corps. His cousin, Fred Morrone, was director of the Port Authority -- and died on 9/11. "We'll be here as many times as it takes," he said. "We won't forget. It's like it happened yesterday. It's hard to deal with, but you have to deal with it." Another one of the mourners had traveled a much greater distance to remember the loss. Chukwudum Ikeazor had come from across the pond -- traveling with a group of 40 police officers from London. "We're here," Ikeazor said, "to show solidarity with New Yorkers. We've done this the last five years. It's a common front we have against terror. We're police officers." This is the first year that the ceremony has moved away from the area known as "The Pit," the site at Ground Zero where the Twin Towers stood until that September morning in 2001. The commemoration was moved because construction has begun on the new Freedom Tower. The foundation of the tower is already in place, and on Tuesday morning, a large American flag flew there. The sign of construction activity was everywhere, with piles of dirt and sand all around. During the commemoration, families walked down the ramp into "The Pit" to place flowers around a circular pool that had been erected at the base of the ramp, a pool with two six-foot squares in its center -- the squares symbolizing the footprints of the Twin Towers. People took roses from buckets at the top of the ramp -- the flowers were a dazzling array of colors: yellow, orange, pink, red, white and purple -- and then carried them down the ramp to lay them in place. Flautist Emily Thomas performed "Amazing Grace." For the observance, most streets in the area surrounding the World Trade Center site and Zuccotti Park were closed. Walking those streets, standing on those streets, reliving the horrors of that September morning six years ago, each of the thousands of mourners had a story to tell. About someone loved. About someone lost. "I'm here because the day it happened I watched the love of my life die," said Richard Percorella, 55, of Bensonhurst, who lost his girlfriend, Karen Juday. She worked for Cantor Fitzgerlad -- on the 101st floor of the North Tower. She was 52. "I vowed never to forget," Pecorella said. "And I keep coming. I made a vow. I was not going to let the world forget what happened." Miriam Juarbe of the Bronx said she came for the same reason. Her son, Angel, was a 34-year-old firefighter from FDNY Ladder 12. He was among those killed on 9/11. "I feel terrible," she said. "Like it's the first day. I lost my son. Nothing has changed. I feel the same way." Not far away, Maria Scrivano, 55, of Staten Island was putting up signs to honor her best friend's daughter, Maria Ramirez, killed on 9/11. She hung five photos, tying them in place with a white ribbon, while her son placed a bouquet of red carnations and white daisies wrapped in paper decorated by an American flag. This was at the fence bordering the WTC site. "I want people in America to remember what happened," she said. "I see a lot of people forgetting, little-by-little. I'm here for people not to forget what happened. Maria was funny. She was sensitive. She loved kids. That year she got engaged. She was about to get married." Scrivano said that after Ramirez was killed in the attack her fiance moved out of New York. And her mother moved to Florida. She could no longer stand the pain. "I'm doing this for Maria," Scrivano said. On Tuesday morning, thousands did as much. Each for someone who meant as much. Each to honor someone lost. Staff writers Sophia Chang, Karla Schuster and Christina Hernandez and Daniel Massey contributed to this story. ----- To see more of Newsday, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.newsday.com Copyright (c) 2007, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. Subscribe to ENR and get unlimited access to ENR.com