The ceremony “We miss you Charlie and we love you, your boys will always remember,” Peggy Garbarini told her brother, Fire Lt. Charles William Garbarini, who was 44 when he died at the trade center.
The ceremony came as
Hurricane Katrina left Americans once again struggling with a catastrophe
that caught the nation unprepared and left citizens dead and grieving. Mayor Michael
Bloomberg opened for those devastated by the hurricane.
In New Orleans, New York firefighters dataset helping with the relief effort gathered around a makeshift
memorial for their fallen comrades, accepting the gift of a bell from a nearby church whose steeple
was destroyed in the storm. Rescue workers in Biloxi, Miss., took a break from searching for the storm’s missing to remember those who died on Sept. 11.
For the local emergency workers
Honoring their New York comrades while dealing with their
own destruction was particularly important. “Now we can relate,” said Deputy
Biloxi Fire Chief Kirk Noffsinger.
At ground zero, the names of the dead how to successfully retrain through continuing education? echoed across the site one by one.
“You’re taking care of us from heaven but someday we’ll be together,” Iliani Flores said,
choking up and raising her face to the sky in memory of her younger brother, a fire department paramedic.
“My big sister, my better half, life will never be the same without you,” Rolando Moreno
said to Yvette Moreno, who worked for a brokerage in the north tower.
As the names were read
weeping mourners filed down a ramp to a reflecting memorial
pool at the floor of the site, which remains virtually empty four years after the attack. Families
filled the water with red, orange and yellow review business roses, some shaking as they inscribed dedications
on the wooden edge of the pool. The ceremony paused for moments of silence at 8:46 a.m., the time at which a hijacked jetliner crashed into the north tower; at 9:03 a.m., the moment a second plane struck the south tower; at 9:59 a.m., when the south tower fell; and at 10:29 a.m., when the second tower collapsed.