Four years on, US mourns victims of 9/11

AMERICA grieved the victims of September 11 yesterday as the families of the dead recited their loved ones' names and messages of remembrance to a weeping crowd at the site where the World Trade Center once stood.

The roll of the lost began with Gordon M Aamoth Jr, an investment bank employee. Then, one after another, the names echoed across the site where the Twin Towers collapsed four years ago in a nightmarish cloud of dust and debris.

Relatives in the crowd bowed their heads and sobbed as speakers uttered brief, personal messages to brothers and sisters they had lost.