9-11 Second Anniversary Photo Tribute

The sunrises on the temporary memorial to United Flight 93 at its Shanksville, Pa., crash site Wednesday Sept. 10, 2003. Flight 93, a United Airlines Boeing 757 commandeered by terrorists, crashed in this former western Pennsylvania strip mine early Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Workers put in cables to hold a seven story flag on the World Financial Center that overlooks ground zero in New York City, September 10, 2003. The flag was hung for ceremonies marking the second anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. REUTERS/Jeff Christensen

Visitors view ground zero in New York Wednesday Sept. 10, 2003, one day before the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.(AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)

A police officer travels on the Staten Island ferry from Manhattan as smoke from the collapsed World Trade Center hangs in the air in this September 17, 2001 file photo. The burning ruins of the World Trade Center spewed toxic gases 'like a chemical factory' for at least six weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks despite government assurances the air was safe, according to a study released on September 10, 2003. The gases of toxic metals, acids and organics could penetrate deeply into the lungs of workers at Ground Zero, said the study by scientists at the University of California at Davis. Photo by Ruben Sprich/Reuters

Chris Stack of New York City, points to photograph of a victim of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center disaster as he reads stories about the victims from a book on a sidewalk on Church street outside the site of the disaster in lower Manhattan September 10, 2003. Stack and others were reading from the book, entitled 'Portraits, 9-11-01,' on the eve of the two year anniversary of the attacks. REUTERS/Mike Segar

People look out the windows of the World Financial Center at the site of the World Trade Center, in New York, September 10, 2003. Construction continues prior to the second anniversary of the attacks September 11, 2001. For the anniversary remembrance, the names of the nearly 2,800 victims will be read by 200 surviving children and family members at a ceremony at Ground Zero. REUTERS/Jeff Christensen

Photograph shows a wide view of the site of the World Trade Center in New York on September 10, 2003, as construction continues prior to the second anniversary of the attacks September 11, 2001. For the anniversary remembrance, the names of the nearly 2,800 victims will be read by 200 surviving children and family members at a ceremony at Ground Zero. REUTERS/Jeff Christensen

An unidentified woman holds a photograph of late New York City firefighter Patrick Brown who was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center as she pauses on Church in lower Manhattan to view the site of the World Trade Center disaster through a fence on the eve of the two year anniversary of the attacks, September 10, 2003. Building at rear is the south tower of the World Financial Center. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Nancy Marra (L) holds a photograph of her son Michael Dauria, a New York City firfefighter who was killed in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, as she stands with victims' family members during a demonstration outside the World Trade Center site, September 10, 2003. The group, called 'Coalition of 9/11 Families' demonstrated on the eve of second anniversary of the attacks, opposed to the development of transportation and commercial structures within the area of the site. They called for a memorial built from bedrock of the World Trade Center towers. REUTERS/Mike Segar

A worker looks up as a seven story flag is hung on the World Financial Center that overlooks ground zero in New York City, September 10, 2003. The flag was hung for ceremonies marking the second anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. REUTERS/Jeff Christensen

Nancy Dwyer of Brooklyn, New York, whose sister Lucy Fishman died in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, holds a sign as she stands with other family members and friends of victims of the attacks during a demonstration outside the World Trade Center site, September 10, 2003. The group, called 'Coalition of 9/11 Families' which was demonstrating on the eve of the second anniversary of the attacks, opposes development of transportation and commercial structures within the area of the site and is calling for a memorial built from bedrock of the World Trade Center towers. REUTERS/Mike Segar

A man who stands next to a bouquet of flowers (L) as he pauses on Church in lower Manhattan, to view the site of the World Trade Center disaster through a fence, on the eve of the two year anniversary of the attacks there, September 10, 2003. Building at rear is the south tower of the World Financial Center. REUTERS/Mike Segar

man photographs through a fence on Church in lower Manhattan at the site of the World Trade Center disaster on the eve of the two year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center September 10, 2003. The American flag at rear hangs from the South tower of the World Financial Center. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Smoke billows after the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. On the eve of the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Americans prepared to revisit the traumatic events that sent them to war, as the world remained on high terror alert.(AFP/File/Henny Ray Abrams)

A hijacked commercial plane crashes into the World Trade Center. The United States will revisit the traumatic events of September 11 during a ceremony of remembrance at Ground Zero in New York.(AFP/File/Seth McAllister)

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People stop on a sidewalk on Church St. in lower Manhattan to view the site of the World Trade Center disaster through a fence on the eve of the two year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center September 10, 2003. Buildings at rear are the World Financial Center towers. REUTERS/Mike Segar

People stop on a sidewalk on Church St. in lower Manhattan beneath an American flag flyinng at half mast to view the site of the World Trade Center disaster on the eve of the two year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center September 10, 2003. Buildings at rear are the World Financial Center towers. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Kaziuhisa Sumiyama, father of the Sept. 11 terror attack victim Yoichi, displays a book he published during an interview with The Associated Press at his Tokyo home Saturday, Sept. 6, 2003. The book entitled 'Odes to the Soul of Ground Zero,' a collection of 68 traditional-style short poems, is dedicated to Yoichi and the 2,800 who died in the terror attack two years ago. Sumiyama and his wife, Mari, hope to meet with other families of the victims in New York and give them copies of the collection. They left for New York Tuesday to attend the second anniversary of the attack. (AP Photo/Chiaki Tsukumo)

A ceremony of remembrance will be beld Thursday at Ground Zero in New York on the eve of the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks(AFP/File/Alex Fuchs)

A member of the Mahatma Gandhi Global Council for World Peace and Amity dresses in black, while protesting against terrorism in Bhopal, September 10, 2003. A demonstrator on Wednesday protested against global terrorism on the eve of the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States. REUTERS/Raj Patidar

An ethnic Albanian woman passes by a poster in Kosovo's capital Pristina, before the second anniversary of the attack on New York and Washington D.C., September 10, 2003.The poster calls for people to light candles and to hold a minute's silence in all areas of Kosovo on Thursday. REUTERS/Hazir Reka

Janus, an artist from Ontario, kisses her daughter, Rowen, 5, on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2003, as they sit among her work of air-dried clay busts in the gallery at the September 11, 2001, Children's Fund in Red Hook, N.Y. Rowen holds 'baby'. The children's fund is a modest operation where two working mothers sit at donated computers helping children who lost a parent in the 9-11 attacks. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight)

Quilt 'Day of Remembrance,' made in Falls Church, Virginia, is one of 100 other quilts at the Pentagon (news - web sites) Quilts Exhibit at the Women In Military Service For America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, September 9, 2003. The event featured an exhibit of some 100 of the quilts sent to the Pentagon from around the world in response to the September 11 attacks. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

Video image of a twisted piece of the World Trade Center in a hangar at JFK Airport in New York, from the documentay entitled 'Up From Zero.' The government premiered the Sept. 11 documentary Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2003 that honors the construction workers at Ground Zero and highlights their contributions to the recovery effort. The one-hour film grew out of an oral history project that Labor Department (news - web sites) officials initiated soon after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, collecting recollections of the workers. (AP Photo/Dept. of Labor)

A federal judge on September 9, 2003 refused to dismiss Sept. 11th litigation brought against airlines, aircraft makers and the operators of the World Trade Center by people injured and the families of those killed in the hijacked airliner attacks two years ago. The World Trade Center's North and South towers are seen in flames after airliners were crashed into the buildings September 11, 2001. Photo by Reuters The ruling is being widely watched by families who must choose whether to join the litigation or seek payment from a national compensation fund. The World Trade Center's North and South towers are seen in flames after airliners were crashed into the buildings September 11, 2001.

Police officer Mathew Spoto displays a tattoo with the words 'in memory of our fallen heros,' in a tribute to fire and policemen who died at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The photograph is part of the exhibit 'Indelible Memories: September 11th Memorial Tattoos Photographed by Vinnie Amesse' presented by the Staten Island Historical Society in New York at their Historic Richmond Town museum until October 5. Amesse photographed 55 people for the exhibition and museum employees conducted interviews to understand the meaning of the tattoos. Photo by Reuters (Handout) REUTERS

Constables Mick Brooks (2nd L) of Lancashire, England and Steve Acott of Cambridgeshire, England speak with New York Police Department officers Paul Spano (L) and Paul Bookman (R) in Times Sqaure in New York on September 9, 2003. Over 100 British Bobbies are visiting the city for ceremonies marking the second anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. REUTERS/Peter Morgan

The sky glows orange as the sun rises over the damaged side of the Pentagon (news - web sites) with the US Capitol behind in Washington, DC after the September 11 attacks.(AFP/File/Luke Frazza)

A worker arranges wreaths placed in honor of Port Authority police officers killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks at Ground Zero in New York City.(AFP/Getty Images/Mario Tama)

A photo taken from an office at the Watergate Building in Washington minutes after a hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon (news - web sites) Sept. 11, 2001, shows the Pentagon burning at rear and the Kennedy Center in foreground. The photo was contributed anonymously to the Septl 11 Digital Archive. (AP Photo/Sept. 11 Digital Archive)

New York firefighter Michael Ragusa, Eng. 279; is seen in this undated photo. Ragusa, whose remains were never found, is the last of the 343 New York City firefighters killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center to be memorialized Monday, Sept. 8, 2003, at a Mass in New York. His family chose to bury a vial of blood he had donated to a bone marrow center. (AP Photo, File)

Art-work 'Ground Zero' by U.S.artist Darryl Pottorf of the exhibition 'True Colors. Meditations of the American spirit' , at the Allied Museum in Berlin Monday, Sept. 8, 2003. In remembrance of the second anniversary of Sept. 11, the museum presents the exhibition which was organized by the Meridian International Center in Washington D.C. The exhibition will show an answer of US art of the Sept. 11 attacks and will be open until Nov. 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

A funeral cortege walks behind a pentagon (news - web sites)-shaped memorial marker honoring 66 victims of the Sept. 11 Pentagon attack at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Monday, Sept. 8, 2003. Thursday marks the second anniversary of the attacks at the Pentagon and World Trade Center in New York. (AP Photo/Terry Ashe)

Frank Sutcliffe, 10, from Brooklyn, New York, holds up the art piece ' Celebrate: Life, Liberty, and Beauty' Part II by Chinese performance artist Pop Zhau at the Statue of Liberty in New York September 7, 2003. An estimated 600 volunteers gathered to unfurl the earth artwork as a tribute to those lost in the September 11 World Trade Center attack. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

People hold up the art piece ' Celebrate: Life, Liberty, and Beauty' Part II by Chinese performance artist Pop Zhau at the Statue of Liberty in New York September 7, 2003. An estimated 600 volunteers gathered to unfurl the earth artwork as a tribute to those lost in the September 11 World Trade Center attack. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

George Donnelly, the proprietor of Inline Fuel Corporation, displays patriotic tattoos he acquired after the attacks on the World Trade Center. The photograph is part of the exhibit 'Indelible Memories: September 11th Memorial Tattoos Photographed by Vinnie Amesse' presented by the Staten Island Historical Society in New York at their Historic Richmond Town museum until October 5. Amesse photographed 55 people for the exhibition and museum employees conducted interviews to understand the meaning of the tattoos. Donnelly had never had a tattoo before but always had flags on his clothes and vehicles; after September 11 he wanted to have one on his body. REUTERS/Photo Courtesy of Vinnie Amesse and the Staten Island Historical Society Handout NO SALES NO ARCHIVE REUTERS

Police detective Francis Coppola dispays a tattoo showing towering figures representing a policeman and fireman together, designed to honor his life partner, a firefighter, and 19 other friends lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center. The photograph is part of the exhibit 'Indelible Memories: September 11th Memorial Tattoos Photographed by Vinnie Amesse' presented by the Staten Island Historical Society in New York at their Historic Richmond Town museum until October 5. Amesse photographed 55 people for the exhibition and museum employees conducted interviews to understand the meaning of the tattoos. REUTERS/Photo Courtesy of Vinnie Amesse and the Staten Island Historical Society Handout

George Henrique, a Senior Investigator with the New York City Board of Education, dispays a tattoo copied from a photogragh of his daughter Michelle who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The photograph is part of the exhibit 'Indelible Memories: September 11th Memorial Tattoos Photographed by Vinnie Amesse' presented by the Staten Island Historical Society at their Historic Richmond Town museum in New York until October 5. Amesse photographed 55 people for the exhibition and museum employees conducted interviews to understand the meaning of the tattoos. The bell in the tattoo evokes lyrics from the Beatle's song 'Michelle', which Henrique used to sing to lull his infant daughter to sleep. REUTERS/Photo Courtesy of Vinnie Amesse and the Staten Island Historical Society

A tattoo displayed by homemaker Alice Gould memorializes her nephew Neil Dollard who died at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The photograph is part of the exhibit 'Indelible Memories: September 11th Memorial Tattoos Photographed by Vinnie Amesse' presented by the Staten Island Historical Society in New York at their Historic Richmond Town museum until October 5. Amesse photographed 55 people for the exhibition and museum employees conducted interviews to understand the meaning of the tattoos. Gould says she chose a tattoo 'to keep his spirit alive.' REUTERS/Photo Courtesy of Vinnie Amesse and the Staten Island Historical Society

Danny Beyar, a firefighter with the New York Fire Department's Ladder Co. 87, dispays a tattoo commemorating all the firefighters lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The photograph is part of the exhibit 'Indelible Memories: September 11th Memorial Tattoos Photographed by Vinnie Amesse' presented by the Staten Island Historical Society at their Historic Richmond Town museum in New York until October 5. Amesse photographed 55 people for the exhibition and museum employees conducted interviews to understand the meaning of the tattoos. Beyar's tattoo shows an eagle carrying a firefighters helmet up to heaven. REUTERS/Photo Courtesy of Vinnie Amesse and the Staten Island Historical Society

Douglas A. MacMillan, CEO of The Todd M. Beamer Foundation, stands with one of the children in the foundation's Heroic Choices program in an undated photo provided by the foundation. Two years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the foundation named for the man who rallied airline passengers to fight hijackers has raised $4.5 million to help children affected by traumatic life experiences. (AP Photo/ The Todd M. Beamer Foundation, ho)

Firefighters make their way over the ruins of New York's World Trade Center as clouds of smoke continue to rise over ground zero in this Oct. 11, 2001 file photo taken a month after the attacks. From executives to food cart vendors, people who were near the World Trade Center when it collapsed began enrolling Friday, Sept. 5, 2003, in a registry to help determine the long-term health effects of breathing the soot-filled air. Health officials hope to collect information from up to 300,000people believed to have been near the twin towers during and shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attack. (AP Photo/Stan Honda, pool, File)

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