Eternal flame to mark site of attack

WORLD leaders will light an eternal flame, and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will lead a reading of the names of 2,823 victims during a day of “simple and powerful” observances marking the anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks.

“This will not be an ordinary day for anyone in New York,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in announcing a plan that “honours the memory of those we lost that day and that gives New Yorkers, Americans and people around the world the opportunity to remember and reflect.”

The day-long series of remembrances on September 11 will start early in the morning with bagpipe and drum processions that will begin in each of the city’s five boroughs and converge at the World Trade Center site.