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Wednesday   9 /11 /2002


Ceremony logistics finalized

  

  WHEN the name of each World Trade Center victim is read aloud during Wednesday’s anniversary ceremony in New York, it will be that of Gordy Aamoth that begins the alphabetical list of 2,801 dead and missing.

  Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani was scheduled to lead a parade of dignitaries reading the victims’ names. Others include Secretary of State Colin Powell, actor Robert De Niro and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

  The program is to begin and end with moments of silence at 8:46 a.m. — when the first plane hit — and just before 10:30 a.m., when the second tower collapsed.

  Gov. George Pataki will read from the Gettysburg Address, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg will introduce the reading of the names.

  The ceremony will conclude with a reading from the Declaration of Independence by New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey.

  The recitation of the names will pause for readings by family members at 9:03 a.m., when the second plane struck, and 9:59 a.m., when the first tower fell. Ed Skyler, a spokesman for Bloomberg, said the passages to be read have not been decided.

  At about 9:04 a.m., families are invited to descend the ramp that extends into the seven-story pit, where they can pick up a rose and place it in a vase for an arrangement that will be preserved for a permanent memorial.(SD-Agencies)

  

  

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