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Firefighters and police officers in full uniform lined the east wall of the pit, where they observed the ceremony...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Mourners Gather At Ground Zero On Anniversary | 9/13/2002 | See Source »

They had marched down avenues, over bridges and on ferries to converge on Ground Zero. And as they descended the ramp to the floor of the seven-story-deep pit, their bagpipes wailed out the tune of “America the Beautiful...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Mourners Gather At Ground Zero On Anniversary | 9/13/2002 | See Source »

While the names were read, family members descended the ramp to the floor of Ground Zero for the first time, where they congregated around and laid flowers in a “circle of honor” at the center of the pit...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Mourners Gather At Ground Zero On Anniversary | 9/13/2002 | See Source »

...east corner of the Ground Zero pit stands the sole remainder of what once was New York’s World Trade Center—two steel beams connected to form a cross. The rest of the remnants—the steel, the glass, the bodies of those who toiled each day inside the buildings—are gone...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On Somber Eve, Business as Usual in New York City | 9/11/2002 | See Source »

Student protesters marched across Harvard Yard to the Square’s Pit area, carrying a 25-foot inflatable Coke bottle labeled “Stop Medical Apartheid” and chanting “Coke’s greed kills! AIDS drugs for Africa...

Author: By Stephanie M. Skier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Protest Coke Health Policy | 8/16/2002 | See Source »

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