Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Oprah Winfrey, Quasha Ortega, Angel Juarbe, and the Wren's of Greenwich, Conn.


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Thousands of celebrants attend a memorial service called "A Prayer For America" Sunday, September 23, 2001 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York. The service is to remember those who have been lost in the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center. (AP/ Wide World Photos - Mark Lennihan) [Source]




New York Gov. George Pataki, left, hugs Oprah Winfrey, center, as New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, right, applaud after Winfrey addressed the crowd Sunday, September 23, 2001, at Yankee Stadium in New York. A city prayer service was held to remember all those who died in the September 11th terrrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. (AP/ Wide World Photos - Beth A. Keiser) [Source]




Frances Ortega, left, cries with her daughter Quasha, 9, during a memorial service Sunday, September 23, 2001, at Yankee Stadium in New York. Ortega had a job interview late in the day of the terrorist attacks, September 11 at the World Trade Center. (AP/ Wide World Photos - Beth A. Keiser) [Source]




A sea of American flags and signs are held up in the crowd as "God Bless the USA" is sung Sunday, September 23, 2001, during a prayer service at Yankee Stadium in New York. The service, billed as "A Prayer for America," mixed solemn words with patriotic and inspirational songs. (AP/ Wide World Photos - Beth A. Keiser) [Source]




Donna Lewan, New York City firefighter Robert Sematore, center, and New York City police officer Paul Greenwood salute during the playing of the American National Anthem as the memorial service for the victims of the World Trade Center disaster begins at Yankee Stadium in New York City, Sunday September 23, 2001. (AP/ Wide World Photos - Stephan Savoia) [Source]




Blanca and Phillip Wren and son Alex, 9 of Greenwich, Conn. comfort one another during the closing evocation at the interfaith memorial service in honor of the victims of the September 11th World Trade Center attack, at New York's Yankee Stadium, Sunday, September 23, 2001. (AP/ Wide World Photos - Beth A. Keiser) [Source]




Indonesian-American women pass a police checkpoint at Yankee Stadium to attend a memorial service called "A Prayer For America" Sunday, September 23, 2001 in the Bronx borough of New York. The service is to remember those who have been lost in the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center. The women, who would not give their names, wear the chador, a traditional Muslim headdress. (AP/ Wide World Photos - Mark Lennihan) [Source]




An attendee of the interfaith memorial service at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, September 23 holds up a sign for a firefighter missing in the September 11 attack of the World Trade Center. (AP/ Wide World Photos - Stephan Savoia) [Source]





Singer Lee Greenwood performs "God Bless the USA" at New York's Yankee Stadium, Sunday September 23, 2001, during the "A Prayer for America" service. Standing at left is New York's Cardinal Edward Egan. (AP/ Wide World Photos - Richard Drew)



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