Family members gather near Ground Zero for remembrance
Photo credit: Getty Images | A woman holds a picture of a loved one before a ceremony marking the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in Manhattan. Victims' families and friends are gathering at the annual ceremony to remember the attacks that killed more than 2,700 people with the destruction of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (Sept. 11, 2009)
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In a steady drizzle under steel-gray skies, families and friends of the nearly 3,000 people who died at the World Trade Center precisely eight years ago began gathering Friday morning for the solemn annual ceremonies marking the anniversary of the terror attacks.
In honor of the new federal designation of Sept. 11 as a national day of service and remembrance, family members were to be paired...
