"Every year on this day, we are all New Yorkers." obama's message
Again the bells tolled. Again the bagpipers played. Again the victims' names were read.
"Eight years we have come together to commemorate this anniversary," Mayor Bloomberg said. "It is the sacred duty of the living to carry with us the memories of those who were lost."
And then the volunteers who toiled in the pit to rescue the living and salvage the dead - joined by grieving relatives - began reading, in alphabetical order, the names of the more than 2,700 victims of Osama Bin Laden's madness.
The roll call of the dead grew by one this year - Leon Hayward, who died last year of lung disease and lymphoma caused the toxic dust cloud that enveloped him after the towers collapsed.
The mourners bowed their heads when the bells tolled at nearby Trinity Church and fell into the first of three moments of silence.
"Every year on this day, we are all New Yorkers." obama's message
