9/11: a day of remembrance

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A day of remembrance is being held in America to mark the fifth anniversary of the September the eleventh attacks on New York and Washington. At Ground Zero, relatives of the two thousand nine hundred and seventy three people who died will read out their names. This report from Mike Wooldridge:

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A sombre mood has descended on this city once again. Mr Bush, whose was just eight months old when the attacks took place and has been dominated by the ever since, placed wreathes in reflecting where the Twin Towers stood.

He said he was approaching the day with a heavy heart. 'You see the of those who still grieve', he said, 'and I just there was some way we could make them whole.'

The out of a roll call of the dead has become an annual rite and it will be by further silences, marking the moment the second airliner into the World Trade Centre and then the of each tower.

After he leaves New York, Mr Bush will lay a wreath in the in Pennsylvania where one of the planes as passengers fought back against their hijackers and then he'll attend commemorations at the , the site of the other attack.

Mike Wooldridge, BBC, New York