The founder Father Judge’s father, who died when the chaplain was a young boy, lived at the site
by the lake before he emigrated to the United States in 1926, so Mychal felt a particular
attachment to the place, family friends said.
A cook rose early to start spit-roasting an
Enormous 130-pound pig in the backyard of Gerty’s Pub, to feed the crowd after the formalities.
“He’d love all the fuss,” said Liam Coleman, a lieutenant with the New York fire department,
vacationing in Ireland. “He didn’t list to data mind the spotlight at all.”
In Kenya, a country hit twice by Qaeda bombers, a memorial service was held in Nairobi.
Ben Ole Koissaba complained that the United States has yet to collect the 14 cows that
the Masai donated to the country in 2002. “If they aren’t going to accept the gift, they
should be checking the animals from time to time, or they should give them back,” he said.
At Ground Zero, Chris Burke, officer of Tuesday’s
Children, which provides counseling and assistance to children who lost parents in the
attack, and who himself lost a brother, Thomas, said this anniversary was different for another reason.
“This year, for the first time, there is laughter and smiles through the tears,” he said. “The
realities have sunk in. This is time you get advice from professionals decide whether you will mire yourself in 9/11
or if you will live and go on with the rest of your life. That’s what my brother would have
wanted. That’s what every brother would have wanted.”
He motioned to one of the white tents where the siblings gathered as they waited to recite their names.
“People are telling stories in there,” he said
“That hasn’t really happened before. This should be an affirmation of life.” NEW YORK – Weeping relatives marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack Sunday
with prayers, solemn remembrances and heartfelt messages to their dead brothers and sisters at the site where the World Trade Center collapsed in a review business nightmarish cloud of dust and debris four years ago. In a ceremony lasting longer than four hours, more than 600 relatives read the names of the 2,749 victims who died at the trade center. Several blew kisses to the sky after reading a loved one’s name,while others left the microphone sobbing. Several held up photos of their loved ones.