NEW YORK - After a year of grief, anger and reflection, Americans will begin a series of sombre ceremonies Wednesday, commemorating the lives of thousands killed in the terrorist attacks in Washington, New York and Pennsylvania.

* SPECIAL COVERAGE: September 11: One year later
http://cbc.ca/september11/

U.S. President George W. Bush will travel to the three attack sites to honour the victims.

In New York, the events began shortly after midnight.

Bagpipers and drummers from each of New York's five boroughs began marching toward Ground Zero, the former site of the World Trade Center towers.

A minute's silence will be observed there at 8:46 a.m. ET, the time the first plane hit the north tower. Various New Yorkers, including former mayor Rudy Giuliani, will read the names of all 2,801 victims.

* RELATED: World marks Sept. 11 anniversary
http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/09/11/world_attack020911

New Yorkers say marking the anniversary is a painful and personal decision. Many companies have made the work day optional.

* RELATED: U.S. raises terror alert
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/09/10/alert_020910

But others say they believe going to work as usual is the best way to defy the terrorists.

"The fact that the (stock) market's up and running and nothing has stopped it from running, that's probably the more important thing, the most important thing," said one Manhattan worker.

Memorial at Pentagon planned

In Washington, Bush will take part in a ceremony at the Pentagon with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. A minute's silence will be held at 9:43 a.m. ET, the exact time the plane struck that complex, killing 184 people.

Under the reconstruction project called "Operation Phoenix", the Pentagon was repaired at a cost of half a billion dollars. The goal was to get workers back inside before the anniversary deadline.

Kevin Shaeffer was the only member of the Navy Command Center to make it out alive. Suffering severe burns to 45 per cent of his body, he calls life precious and says he'll be remembering the colleagues he lost that day.

And in Pennsylvania, tens of thousands of people are expected to gather near the open field where the fourth hijacked plane crashed. All 40 passengers and crew on United Airlines Flight 93 died.

Written by CBC News Online staff http://cbc.ca/bios.html

Your Thoughts?

-Danny
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That day it seemed like the end of the world, but somehow everything just kept on going. There certainly have been some interesting things going on since then, some extraordinarily positive, some just as ugly. I think thefactthat we live in a time where global communication is as easy as poweringon our respective computers also made quite an impact in this last year. If nothing else, it's helped to keep a global perspective on the events, to give us Americans a wake-up call. As they say, even from bad times there is good, but let's just hope we can avoid further warfare.

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No kidding I can`t believe Bush wants to go after Iraq now I mean i`ve heard of nothing they have done to deserve this!

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Russia lost power, Afghanistan(in the Russian sphere of influence) wasnt "policed by Russia.

Countries not loyal to America are now "loose cannons"

Everyone in the world is free as long as they do things "the American way"? (ironic comment)

A new "global policing" needs to be implemented. ( a less militant statement than "war on terror"?)

It has been claimed that because America is friendly with Ireland that they funded the IRA.

When is terrorism acceptable?

Who should police our planet?

I used to play "balance of power", a political computer game.

It drummed it home to me that having a balance in the world was more important than "having it all your own way"

I will pray for the victims of 9/11 along with:-

WW1
WW2
Vietnam
IRA victims
South American drug baron victims
drug addicts
All those caught in the middle east conflicts.

I personally wonder if America could have averted the attacks. America has been very vigourous & remeber thier are starving kids in the world, who are destined to lives of illness, pain & misery.

Should America not be allowing third world countries to "better themselves"?

Europe & America are the 2 most economically powerfull zones in the world & niether is welcomed in the middle east or the east.

I feel that we need to think of making friends in that part of the world.

If you don't make a friend today then you have made an enemy.

IMHO the best way to fight terrorism is to make the world smile, be content, balanced, happy.

shaktiman

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I feel that we need to think of making friends in that part of the world.

If you don't make a friend today then you have made an enemy.

IMHO the best way to fight terrorism is to make the world smile, be content, balanced, happy.

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I never mention this topic until someone else posts about it.

Russia lost power, Afghanistan(in the Russian sphere of influence) wasnt "policed by Russia.

Countries not loyal to America are now "loose cannons"

Everyone in the world is free as long as they do things "the American way"? (ironic comment)

A new "global policing" needs to be implemented. ( a less militant statement than "war on terror"?)

It has been claimed that because America is friendly with Ireland that they funded the IRA.

When is terrorism acceptable?

Who should police our planet?

I used to play "balance of power", a political computer game.

It drummed it home to me that having a balance in the world was more important than "having it all your own way"

I will pray for the victims of 9/11 along with:-

WW1
WW2
Vietnam
IRA victims
South American drug baron victims
drug addicts
All those caught in the middle east conflicts.

I personally wonder if America could have averted the attacks. America has been very vigourous & remeber thier are starving kids in the world, who are destined to lives of illness, pain & misery.

Should America not be allowing third world countries to "better themselves"?

Europe & America are the 2 most economically powerfull zones in the world & niether is welcomed in the middle east or the east.

I feel that we need to think of making friends in that part of the world.

If you don't make a friend today then you have made an enemy.

IMHO the best way to fight terrorism is to make the world smile, be content, balanced, happy.

shaktiman

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Anyway, I agree with jt on this one. This is not the place for political debate.
You can start off another thread, but remember the rule: "Keep it civil!"

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What's so special about this picture? Would you like to point out what I'm looking for? I don't see anything special.

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