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America Recovers: In New York, Ceremony Marks Anniversary of September 11 Attacks
Aired October 11, 2001 - 10:37 ET
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PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: A month after September 11, fires still smolder underneath the tons and tons of wreckage from the fallen Trade Center towers. Today, the city paused to remember those who lost their lives.
National correspondent Martin Savidge is in the zone this morning, with some reflections on that -- Martin.
MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Paula, it is amazing that the fires continue to burn some 30 days after the attack on the World Trade Center building. As you mention, that memorial service took place amidst the smoke that is down there amidst all of that debris. A relatively short, but still a moving service held there, moving because, obviously, of where it was held, not just the words that were delivered by many of the officials, and there were a lot of officials there: chaplains from the fire department that suffered so severely and the police department as well. There were also city officials, bagpipes playing "Amazing Grace," the reading of the Psalm 23, and then the very poignant moment of silence depicting the very moment one month ago when the first plane slammed into the first tower of the World Trade Center building.
New York Myr. Rudy Giuliani dedicated the rebuilding of New York to the thousands of lives that were lost here. He also commented on something else: how time seems to have been distorted by the tragedy.
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MYR. RUDY GIULIANI (R), NEW YORK: Sometimes it feels like yesterday. Sometimes it feels like a year ago or more. This has been the most devastating attack on America, on New York City ever. The fire is still burning. But from it has emerged a stronger spirit, a more unified country, a more unified city, and a more unified world in the goal of making certain that something like this never happens again.
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SAVIDGE: Though the recovery effort went on, they did pause to remember and reflect, as millions of Americans will do in their own hearts and their own minds at their own time sometime today.
New York Myr. Rudy Giuliani also took around Saudi Prince Alwaleed. It was a very poignant scene for the prince. He mentioned afterward that the Saudi royal family would be donating $10 million to the World Trade Center memorial fund. He also passed along his condolences of the Saudi people. But there was no comment -- at least not openly -- regarding Saudi Arabia's role in the military coalition in the ongoing war of terrorism -- Paula.
ZAHN: Thank you, Marty.
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