THE United States will pause today in sombre remembrance of the September 11 terrorist strikes that led the country into an open-ended global war against a largely invisible enemy.

The last of the 343 New York firefighters who perished in the wake of the September 11 terrorist strikes was finally laid to rest today.

Missing. The word has lost its hopeful lustre since the days when families plastered the city with photographs of those who didn’t come home on the night of September 11.