A7 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Friday, Sept. 12, 2003 NATION News ‘Tribute in Light’ caps 9/11 anniversary in brief Chaka Ferguson never forget,” Gov. George Pataki The Associated Press said after watching the lights rise into “It makes you look skyward. the sky at dusk Thursday. Alleged sexual N E W Y O R K — As night fell on a There is something hopeful In Washington, a moment of si­ mourning nation, twin towers of abuse at football about directing your lence was observed at the Pentagon at white light beamed brighter into the 9:37 a.m. for the 184 victims killed by camp under sky above ground zero, capping the thoughts upward.” the plane crash there. And at an isolat­ emotional second anniversary of the ed field near Shanksville, Pa., bells investigation Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Melannie Dunn, tolled for the 40 people killed aboard BELLMORE, N Y. — Au­ "Tribute in Light" returned after a Manhattan resident United Airlines Flight 93. thorities said they were investi­ 17-month hiatus Thursday night, a gating allegations that members ghostly reminder of the day hijacked ON THURSDAY morning, thou­ of a Long Island high school jetliners slammed into the World sands of mourners filled the pit where football team sexually abused Trade Center, the Pentagon and a workers of the Port Authority of New the trade center once stood. Two by younger players as part of a haz­ field in Pennsylvania, killing more York and New Jersey, owner of the two, young relatives of the victims ing at a preseason camp last than 3.(KH) people in the worst terror­ trade center complex. stepped to the microphone — sons ist attack in U.S. history. month. and daughters, nieces and nephews, "It makes you look skyward," The ceremonies came as the fed­ Sixty players and five coach­ grandsons and granddaughters. Melannie Dunn, 34. of Manhattan, eral government warned of possible es with the football team attend­ The 2CX) children mournfully re­ ed the camp in northeastern said as she gazed at the tribute. al-Qaida attacks against Americans overseas in connection with the an­ cited the names of the World Trade Pennsylvania for five days. The “ There is something hopeful about niversary, but the day passed without Center dead, each ending with a coaches, who were in a different directing your thoughts upward.” incident. A videotape of Osama bin salute to a slain relative. cabin, weren't aware of any Laden emerged a day earlier, but U.S. "Our father, James Patrick Berg­ problems until a parent of an al­ THE LIGHTS in Battery Park officials sought to downplay its rele­ er," said his sons, 8-year-old Alexan­ leged victim complained to the City concluded a national day of vance. der and 10-year-old Nicholas, their Mepham High School principal mourning, from Staten Island to the small voices suddenly immense as last week, Be 11 more-Merrick White House, from Massachusetts to they echoed across ground zero. Superintendent Thomas J. Hawaii, as more than 3,(XX) victims THE LOWER Manhattan memo­ The families appeared in various Caramore said. were remembered. In New York. 200 rial lights were first sent into the sky children led the mourning, showing on March 11, 2002, to mark six sad permutations: New York Police extraordinary poise as they read the months since the terrorist attack that Department Sgt. Michael Curtin was Drilling rig enormous list of victims for 2Vi claimed 2,792 victims and brought represented by his three daughters, hours. down the twin 110-story towers. Jennifer, 17, Erica, 15, and Heather, collapses; 41 13. Kristen Canillas, 12, stood along­ Outside the White House. Presi­ Each year on the anniversary of the AP photo people rescued dent Bush and his staff stood silently attack, the lights — symbols of the side 8-year-old Christopher Cardi­

on the South Lawn at 8:46 a.m. — the felled skyscrapers — will go on for nal!; both had lost a grandparent. Twin beams of light form the “Tribute in Light” at the NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A World Trade Center site on the second anniversary moment of impact of the first hi­ one day. “ I love you, and I miss you,” drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexi­ of the Sept. 11 attacks Thursday in New York. The jacked plane. Vice President Dick Ch­ “ It will get very emotional as the Knsten said after invoking the name co collapsed Thursday, dump­ photograph was taken from the Empire State Build­ eney attended a memorial at the night gets darker and the lights get of her grandfather, Anthony Luparel- ing more than 40 workers into ing. the water before they were res­ Riverside Church in Manhattan for 84 brighter ... and it shows that we will lo. cued. Vessels in the area quickly rescued most of the 41 people who went into the water, and Thousands mark anniversary with acts of kindness two were picked up by Coast Guard helicopters and flown to By Verona Dobnik “ A lot of people wanted to sad,” fifth-grader Bryan Segura tive who lost friends at the World the Bronx soup kitchen was Bar­ a Gulfport, Miss., hospital. Lt. The A ssociated Press know, ‘What can I do today?” ' said. Trade Center. He got more than bara Torres. 29. a mother of five Rob Wyman said. Juan Diaz, 37, a digital pro­ ■ In Stuart. Fla., florist Su­ 90.IXX) people to pledge on his who just moved from a homeless “ It looks like everyone on rig NEW YORK — For tens of duction manager, rolled up his san Vosters helped hand out Internet site to give up a day of shelter to a home in the Bronx. has been accounted for,” he thousands of Americans, a mo­ sleeves to wash dishes and said, 12,(XX) roses. work for a day of generosity. She said she lost an aunt in the said. ment of silence wasn't enough. “ We should put our emotions ■ And in Boston. Maija Lan- “ The concept is: This is a terrorist attacks and would be The cause of the rig's col­ They manned a soup kitchen, about Sept. 11 on a back burner geland spent the day plugging day of giving to others, a day of going to a memorial Mass on lapse, about 28 miles south of read to the elderly and even fed and think of other people.” coins into expired parking me­ kindness, generosity and com­ Thursday night. expired parking meters, trans­ Horn Island, Miss., was not From coast to coast, Ameri­ ters. passion." he said in an interview “ I feel conflicted today — a forming grief into acts of kind­ known. The rig is owned by cans found their own gestures of Some of the projects were in­ from his home in Irvine, Calif. little safer than two years ago,” ness on the second anniversary she said. "B u t what happened Parker Drilling USA. A compa­ kindness: spired by the One Day’s Pay “ People can define it any way of nation's worst terrorist attack. is going to stay with me forev­ ny spokesman did not return ■ In San Juan Capistrano, program conceived by David they want." In New York, eight employ­ calls seeking comment Thurs­ Calif., more than 5(X) children at Paine, a public relations execu­ Among those being served at er.” ees of the music magazines Del Obispo Elementary School day evening. Vibe and Spin hopped a D train dressed in red, white and blue to the Bronx and donned hair­ and came up with projects rang­ Woman’s nets to serve the midday meal to ing from flower arrangements 40 patrons at a soup kitchen for the lunch tables to shaving remains kept in called POTS, for Part of the So­ kits for destitute men. freezer for years lution. ■ In Worcester, Mass., 200 “ Let’s observe on this day PHOENIX (AP) — A 75- Holy Cross College students that people perished, but let’s year-old man stored his wife's worked at outreach projects in take that sadness and do some­ body for nearly six years in his impoverished areas. thing positive," said Michelle backyard, twisted and upside ■ In Amarillo, Texas, chil­ Tennant-Timmons, 33, execu­ dren at San Jacinto Elementary down in an old freezer, because tive assistant to the president at School offered services such as he hoped she could someday be Vibe, as she passed out trays of reading to the elderly. 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