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A Nation's Reflects On 9/11 Annivesary

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: September 12, 2008

At small-town firehouses, in a field in Pennsylvania, at the Pentagon, at ground zero in Manhattan, in Kabul and in Baghdad, people paused to remember a day they will never forget.

Seven years have passed. Men and women in uniform, who advanced toward burning buildings and battlefields when we all sought to recoil, still wept.

Two thousand nine-hundred and seventy-five flags remembered those who died on Sept. 11, 2001.

Though construction impeded entry into ground zero, crowds descended to the spot where the twin towers of the World Trade Center once stood, tossing flowers and reading names of the attack's 2,751 victims. At the Pentagon, a memorial of cantilevered benches, each bearing a name, remembered the 184 victims. In Shanksville, Pa., flags flew at half-staff to honor the 40 people, passengers and crew, whose courage and sacrifice aboard United Airlines Flight 93 averted another attack.

President Bush, whose tenure has been defined by the attacks and the responses to them, said history will judge the nation's actions and conclude: "We did not tire, we did not falter and we did not fail."

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