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4 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2003 NEW YORK FROM PAGE 1 experience and my want to come back is more of an exception.” Helen Walsch of North Salem, N.Y. said this year marked the first time she could bring herself to travel to the site where the two towers once dominated the sky line. She lost two loved ones on Sept. 11. “It’s not something I really wanted to see until now,” she said. “I tried to find the names on a flag, but the letters started blurring together.” One of Walsch’s friends from church lost her husband, fire lieu tenant Vincent Ohalloran, to the attacks. Ohalloran and his wife had five boys, but soon after he died, his wife discovered that she was preg nant. “He never got to see that baby girl,” Walsch said. Walsch said the real tragedy is the lack of closure for Ohalloran’s LIBERTIES FROM PAGE 1 aliens have been detained secretly without counsel, he said. Camp compared the new levels of racial profiling and surveillance to past instances in which civil lib erties were endangered such as the World War II internment of Japanese Americans and the com munist “witch hunt” that took place in the United States during the 19505. “We somehow manage to at least do the right thing eventually,” she said. “But it’s becoming harder and harder to say that. People are afraid, and when people are driven by fear, they do things that they C m Joi theF n! We are interviewing daily for servers, cooks, host/esses, bartenders, server assistants, dishwashers and to-go specialists at our newest location at The Streets at Southpoint Mall. Full Time/Part Time • Flexible Hours Fantastic Training and Orientation Excellent ssss • Caring Managers Generous Meal Discounts Great Career Opportunities Check us out at yffo www.rockfish.com. If you have star-quality attitude, personality, and casual service dining experience, us f t l rnnn rnm for 3 P ersonal interview. 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A memorial service was held on the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in 2002 after a year with out recovering Ohalloran’s body. His wife had a cement bench placed in her garden with one hol low leg, where her husband’s remains will be placed if they ever turn up. Hector and Carmen Garcia are regular Ground Zero visitors, always grieving for their 21-year old daughter, Marlyn, who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center. Marlyn was working part time at the information desk on the 100th floor of the first tower struck by the hijackers. “It’s something you never for get,” Hector said. “Any moment you walk in New York City, you think of it.” Marlyn Garcia’s body was never found, but her parents set aside a space for her in a cemetery just in case. would never consider otherwise.” But if a recent Michigan State University study is anv indication, many people in the United States are willing to make that trade-off. The study, administered by the uni versity’s Office of Survey Research from Jan. 31 to May 28, found that 43 percent of those surveyed prefer a total preservation of liberties. This is compared to 54 percent in the months following the attacks. “I think as citizens, we all owe it to each other to give up some of our liberty in the name of security,” Scott said. “The question is: How much is too much to give?” Contact the State £2 National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. From Page One The absence of their daughter’s body serves as salt in an already aching wound. “My wife is still feeling the same situation,” Hector said. “Every sin gle day, she cries.” The reasons for holding on vary, but some visiting the site Wednesday said they are unsettled by developments in the world after Sept. 11. Some are disappointed with the way the Bush administration has handled the war in Iraq, an aftereffect of the Sept. 11 attacks. Still others say the debate about what should replace the World Trade Center has taken away from the sanctity of the remembrance. But most say moving on is just something people do. “I think it’s human nature to move on,” Peter Cipowski said. “That’s why we build memorials.” Cipowski lost three friends dur ing the Sept. 11 attacks. He stood in front of the World Trade Center site with his hand on a rail and his CAROLINAS FROM PAGE t all of us,” Shughrue said. “(It) affected so many people, it was only right.” Though Durham will not host a public ceremony, officials are plan ning for an internal commemora tion recognizing city employees such as firefighters and police offi cers, said Beverly Thompson, the city’s public affairs director. The candlelight ceremony, meant to honor government work ers who serve the community, will begin at noon. “I think everyone was touched and heartbroken by what hap pened,” she said. “Firefighters and police officers have a certain kin ship with the public service people in New York.” Wilmington will host two memorials today, with the Eternal Flame ceremony beginning at noon at City Hall. The flame burns all year in remembrance of the ter rorist attacks, said Renee Buergey, administrative specialist for the mayor and City Council. The second ceremony will take place at UNC-Wilmington in Kenan Auditorium, with firefight ers, police officers and members of =—■ WEEKEND ATL * P CAROLINA Friday Men’s Soccer vs. Michigan Carolina Nike Classic 7:3opm at Fetzer Field First 200 receive Carolina Soccer T-shirts Saturday Men’s & Women’s Cross-Country Ranson-Fiamrick Cross-Country Course at Finley Fields Men's race at 9:3oam Women’s race at Warn This is an open meet. 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But he says that, if at no other time, now is the appropriate moment for people to put those things behind them. “Today and tomorrow, it’s all about honoring the memory of the people we lost,” Cipowski said. “It’s all about Rob, Lisa and David.” Contact the State National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. “Th is is a way to show that we don’t take freedom for granted.... We have to celebrate it.” PAT MCCRORY, CHARLOTTE MAYOR the military speaking. On the other side of the state, Charlotte will sponsor a tribute to the victims and survivors and honor military personnel, said Dennis Marstall, assistant to Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory. The ceremony will feature a U.S. flag for each person who died in the attacks, a moment of silence and four bell tolls —one for each of the hijacked planes, he said. In a statement issued through his press office, McCrory said the ceremony is a way to express patri otism. “This is a way to show that we don’t take freedom for granted,” he said. “We have to celebrate it.” Staff Writer Alex Gra nados contributed to this article. Contact the State £? National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. STRENGTH FROM PAGE 1 as it traveled up the East River. Another fire ravaged the TYiangle Shirtwaist Company on March 25, 1911. That catastrophe claimed 146 lives and led to increased fire safe ty measures and improved work place safety regulations. “New York’s been dealt many blows and always seems to rise above those blows,” said Suzanne Wasserman, associate director of the Gotham Center for New York City History. The city’s dominance of U.S. culture has outweighed even its most tragic moment Within a cou ple of days of the World Trade Center attacks, Wasserman said, the city was trying to return to nor mal. She said that there was a lot of pressure on New Yorkers to recov er from the shock of the attacks and that she was surprised by how quickly that shock dissipated. “It’s not just that we wanted to return to the normalcy of everyday life, but the rest of the world want ed us to,” she said. Bums said that when the attacks took place, it was like “part of the central nervous system of the world had been damaged and tom.” There was no difference, he added, between witnessing the attacks on 73rd and Broadway in Manhattan or in another part of the world. He said it had been easy for out siders to think of the city as a terri ble place ever since the 19705, when a deteriorating New York was seen as a “poster child of things we hate.” But falling to the ground along with the towers, he said, was a last vestige of distrust for the city. “The rest of the country moved close to New York as New York moved close to the rest of the country.” The city that often is thought of as the brash, iron-fisted force “that will leave you flat like a cartoon character” has seen its crime rate plummet and its street mentality diminish in toughness, he added. 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Two years after the towers were destroyed, efforts to rebuild the strength of lower Manhattan where the World TVade Center once stood have proven effec tive. Despite the lasting psychologi cal effects of the attacks, 97 percent of the homes in lower Manhattan are occupied, said Bryan Evans, a spokesman for the Downtown Alliance. That mark is higher than it was immediately preceding the terrorist attacks, he added. “The residential market is strong," he said. “People want to come down here to live.” The part of Manhattan that houses the city’s financial district including Wall Street is on its way to becoming a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week environment for living and working, he said. New York's resilience has become all the more evident after Sept. 11, he said, and it is easier to identify the “spirit of New York.” “The attack on the World TVade Center clearly wasn’t an attack on buildings,” he said. “It was an attack on the economy and an attack on the financial well-being of New York and the nation. “So I think that New Yorkers in general do recognize what New York means to the rest of the world, and it’s very powerful.” The connection among New Yorkers has grown more powerful, Burns said. He recalled standing one day at the bow of the Staten Island Ferry, looking back and forth from his fellow New Yorkers to the Manhattan skyline. He said the sense of knowing what weighs on other New Yorkers’ minds has been “astonishing.” He said a depth of feeling brought on by a profound sense of sorrow —but not depression has increased the civility and empathy of those who live in the Big Apple. “We’ve checked our guns before we walk into the saloon now,” he said. “It’s very simple. We’ve seen what rage can do.” Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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