A decade after the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, family and friends of the six victims gathered Wednesday morning for a memorial Mass at a church near ground zero. The service inside St. Peter’s Church in lower Manhattan, which was filled with mourners, started at 11 a.m. Wednesday — the 10th anniversary of the day that a bomb exploded in a trade center parking garage on Feb. 26, 1993. A moment of silence for the six dead was observed at 12:18 p.m., the exact moment of detonation. Among those at the Mass were Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. George Pataki, neither of whom addressed the gathering of 300-plus mourners. “The deaths of these people do not call out for vengeance,” said the Rev. Kevin Madigan, pastor of the church, in his homily. “They cry out that we should try to find some meaning … find a safer world, a world more free and more just.” In his eulogy, Madigan noted how the annual memorial Mass has united the families of the six 1993 victims despite the difficulties of life in this “lawless, disordered world.” Full Story
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