Complete Coverage: 9/11, Four Years Later

REMEMBERING 9-11

Calling out to the lost

The families of Sept. 11 made their annual pilgrimage to Ground Zero yesterday, burdened by familiar sorrows and a growing, gnawing anxiety that the world is forgetting them too fast.

United in grief, they share a day of pain

Some walked burdened with grief. Others smiled broadly at the unexpected sight of a loved one found in a picture at the memorial.

REMEMBERING 9-11

In song and in silence

In lower Manhattan and throughout the city, New Yorkers yesterday stopped to mark the fourth anniversary of Sept. 11.

REMEMBERING 9-11

A personal connection

When New York Police Sgt. Martin Steiger tells where he's been and what he's seen in the last four years, the images have a haunting familiarity.

REMEMBERING 9-11

A place to reflect

The man with the silver bracelet wrapped tightly around one wrist stared into the fountain shaped like a broken heart for a long time yesterday, seemingly unaware of the hundreds of people filing past.

REMEMBERING 9-11

Wall offers peace, hope

A secret, said Amy Gardner, is a private prayer or thought.

The stories of 9/11 told by the man who knows

Two dozen people were crowded around Harry John Roland at the World Trade Center site yesterday, mesmerized as he told all he knew about what happened there on Sept. 11, 2001.

REMEBERING 9-11

Pause in Gulf mission to pay tribute

They drove more than 1,300 miles to help enforce the law after what may have been the worst natural disaster in American history turned this city into a flooded, wind-battered wreck.

HUNT FOR BIN LADEN

Missed opportunity

In the four years since the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States has had only one precious opportunity to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. It blew it, according to the Long Island native who led the CIA's efforts.

9-11: FOUR YEARS LATER

A family forever changed by loss

The storm-damaged dock is half-submerged, and the big pontoon party boat is moored offshore in forlorn disuse.

Tears, memories endure

Four years after 9/11, some wounds may have healed. But emotional ceremonies yesterday in Nassau and Suffolk counties demonstrated that for many, the scars will long remain.

Using hypnotherapy to deal with 9/11

It was one of the few times in her life Sharon Lash was grateful to be blind. On Sept. 11, 2001, Lash, 54, a data transcriber, was on the 41st floor in the Federal Plaza Building, just eight blocks from the World Trade Center. Coworkers witnessed the second plane fly into the tower. Lash could only feel and listen.

Their courage honored

Brooklyn firefighter Mike Stack only learned how his father died some time after Sept. 11, 2001, when a fellow firefighter told him that Lawrence Stack had spent his final moments waiting with an injured hotel employee outside of the World Trade Center Marriott.

'Tribute of Light' and reading of names

The "Tribute of Light" will return for one night Sunday following a solemn morning ceremony where siblings will read the names of victims to mark the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack.

9/11: FOUR YEARS LATER

Fighting terrorism the high-tech way

Malene Meisner stiffened as quick puffs of air shot out from the machine and pelted her body. Within seconds, the high-tech new machine indicated there were no traces of explosives, so the airport screener waved Meisner through Terminal 1 at Kennedy Airport.

9/11: FOUR YEARS LATER

Local dedications to their memories

In Washington, D.C., there are grand monuments to presidents and monuments that memorialize wars. The wall at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has 58,249 names inscribed on it. History is encoded in the landscape - a place name, a statue, a flower garden planted to honor the dead.

Filling the void for the children of 9/11

Chris Burke and his brother, Tom, did almost everything together, even pursued the same career as government bond brokers for Cantor Fitzgerald.

Mediating museum dispute

The agency in charge of Ground Zero rebuilding said yesterday it has hired a dispute mediator to attempt to resolve a controversy over a museum picked to go next to the World Trade Center memorial.

Fallen 9/11 firefighter from LI gets active status

A new measure gives active status to an associate firefighter from Jericho who died while helping Sept. 11 attack victims.

9/11: FOUR YEARS LATER

Goals: Get $500M, dodge controversy

Gretchen Dykstra is leading perhaps the most high-profile New York-based charity, with a board made up of boldface names that include actor Robert De Niro, philanthropist David Rockefeller and American Express chief executive Kenneth Chenault.

Living in memoriam

In a number of ways, Dan Daly has lived his life since Sept. 11 in honor of Stephen Belson, his best friend and Fire Department comrade.

Port Authority workers to be honored

After a long campaign, 13 Port Authority civilian employees who died in the line of duty in the World Trade Center attack will be honored tomorrow with a national Medal of Valor at a White House ceremony.

A long wait for farewell

Nearly four years after the World Trade Center was attacked and hundreds of emergency responders died, Firefighter Gerard Baptiste yesterday was laid to rest.

KATRINA

Ill wind for 9/11 fund?

The catastrophe down South not only overshadows the latest commemoration of the 2001 terrorist attacks but threatens funding for at least one 9/11-related project in the city.

First step for WTC site

The first construction project on the 16-acre World Trade Center site was launched yesterday with New York and New Jersey officials breaking ground for a new transportation hub there.

9/11: FOUR YEARS LATER

Building for others hrough spirit of wife

Fourth of a series

Scholarship a means to carry on spouse's name

Dening Lohez says her husband's premature death at age 30 robbed her of the chance to give him the ultimate gift: a child. But Lohez' love for Jerome, her husband of three years, reigns eternal, she said, so she was determined to conceive something that would carry on his legacy.

COMMENTARY

Rebuilding will be Big, not Easy

When the bodies have been collected, the streets dredged and the sewers patched, New Orleans will be rebuilt. We can only hope - naively, perhaps - that the task will be carried out by officials smarter and better-informed than the bunglers who left Louisiana vulnerable and aggravated nature's violence with neglect.

United in grief, divided in purpose

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9/11 groups: Dedicated to the memory

More than 20 major groups represent families and loved ones of those who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks:

Commentary

Reconfiguring the waterfront

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9-11 FOUR YEARS LATER

One 9/11 hero's tale of tragedy

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