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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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