A Moment of Silence...

I obviously don't need to tell anyone today is the 6th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks. But I do feel the need to take a moment for it.

This is the 2nd 9/11 that I've commuted through the World Trade Center PATH station and so my day pretty much began walking through a sea of mourners, press, protesters, cops and commuters--all of whom were silent. Most of Church St. (the street that runs in front of the PATH entrance) was closed, so everyone was being funneled through a relatively small area, but somehow it was all being done solemnly and quietly.

As I mentioned, even the protesters, were protesting silently. There were actually 2 groups of protesters:

• anti-war protestors who had 3 people dressed as an American soldier, an Iraqi civilian and, I think, a 9/11 victim in the form of an office worker each with a number written on their forehead to symbolize the number of dead; and
• 9/11 conspiracy theorists wearing t-shirts that said "911 was an inside job" (with the "11" in the form of the twin towers).
  

This is also the first anniversary of the attacks to fall on a Tuesday, the day the attacks actually happened. However, happily, it is also the first appropriately gloomy day. On each of the previous anniversaries, if memory serves, the weather has been as eerily perfect as it was that September Tuesday in 2001.