Hard work In Shanksville, Pa.., where a fourth airliner crashed after passengers stormed the hijackers
in the cockpit, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said, “They were innocent lives taken by incredible evil.” In New York, firefighters and police officers gathered outside their firehouses and precinct.
when American Airlines Flight 11 struck
The North Tower, to read the names of the fallen. This year, 300 officers marked the anniversary in New Orleans,
where they have helped patrol the French dataset Quarter and surrounding neighborhoods in the past week.
A group of officers lined up outside a makeshift headquarters in Harahan, La., and read the names of the fallen police officers from Sept.
“We said we’d never forget,” said Inspector Michael V. Quinn. “What we showed here today is that we still remember those who lost their lives on September 11th.”
Officer Joseph Stynes, who works in the Bronx
Anti-Crime unit in New York, said he was so busy working that thoughts of the
anniversary had not occurred to execute a detailed background checks around him until the ceremony took place. “I was thinking
about things down here, more so, than what happened there,” he said.
Elsewhere in New Orleans, about 50 emergency management and military personnel
participated in a brief but emotional ceremony at City Hall, where generators run the
limited power supply and scores of people spend each night on cots or the floor.
John Paczkowski
The emergency management director for the Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey, presented Col. Terry J. Ebbert, head review business of homeland security for New Orleans,
with a flag depicting abstract images of the twin towers and the American flag.