9/11: One Year series
The Sun's series leading up to the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
September 12, 2002
Thousands pay tribute at Pentagon
WASHINGTON - At the precise spot where an airliner slammed into the Pentagon a year ago, President Bush and military leaders led a ceremony of remembrance yesterday that was equal parts patriotic rally, somber memorial service and renewed call to arms against terrorism.
September 12, 2002
'The emotions are still there'
The musicians dressed in the black of mourning took their places. At 8:46 a.m. yesterday, a year to the moment after the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center, the choir rose, and the orchestra, led by the deep strains of the bass, began to play Mozart's Requiem.
September 11, 2002
9/11: One Year
Out of loss, a struggle for meaning
The No. 7 elevated train clanks and squeals along the rooftops of Queens, scattering pigeons on the way past Shea Stadium, sliding by graffiti on brick and rusty steel. The riders, a polyglot mix, study textbooks, argue into cell phones, chat in Korean, Urdu, Spanish, Chinese. Posters pitch ambition to a striving class of new Americans: "Time to Learn a Trade -- Apex Technical School," "Turn Your Dreams into Reality -- New York School of Career and Applied Sciences."
September 11, 2002
9/11: One Year
New York continues the rituals of sadness
NEW YORK - Even as the city finished preparations for today's one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks, outside a small Catholic church in the Bronx yesterday morning it was business as usual in a most unusual year.
September 10, 2002
9/11: One Year
Artists struggle to make sense of senseless act
NEW YORK - Against a setting sun, a clarinetist blows fiercely into his instrument, the sound more anguished cry than musical note. Dancers, moving as slowly as a dream, climb atop a tomb-like vessel piled high with dark, pebbly dirt, alternately burying themselves in it and rising defiantly atop it.
September 9, 2002
9/11: One Year
A presidency shaken finds 'higher calling'
WASHINGTON - It looked as though George W. Bush would be a domestic president. He lacked seasoning in foreign affairs. The nation was at peace. Bush's plan: bring to the White House a recipe of reforms that he felt had made him a successful governor.
September 6, 2002
9/11: ONE YEAR
A defining experience for a young generation
Eighteen teens sit at their desks in full first-day-of-school awkwardness: Eyes are wandering, hands fidgeting, yawns are being stifled.
September 6, 2002
Effects of Sept. 11 attacks fade for many Americans, poll finds
WASHINGTON-Americans are turning inward and putting less faith in government as the aftershocks of last Sept. 11 fade, a new national poll has found.
September 5, 2002
9/11: One Year
'It will never be the same there'
NEW YORK - How close did Rachel Florio live to the World Trade Center's towers?
September 4, 2002
9/11: One Year
Faith, tenacity help firm rise from twin towers' fall
NEW YORK - May Davis Group lives. For now, that is achievement enough.
September 3, 2002
9/11: One Year
A day to reflect, to go on
In Maryland and around the country, Sept. 11 will be a day of mournful choral music and memorial walks, of church bells and flag-raising, of button wearing and volunteering, of both pausing and going on.
September 3, 2002
9/11: One Year
U.S. economy proved resilient
Much has been written about heroes in the past year, but the unsung hero has been the American consumer, who almost single-handedly prevented the country from plunging into a deep and prolonged recession.
September 2, 2002
9/11 ONE YEAR
Edge of zero
As a nation, we are still healing from the gaping wound inflicted by the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. But for those who live nearby, recovery is more complicated.
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