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0 N.E R. A.T 'if'. "-tr "-r- v-1- -A jf ti ff MIKE ALBANS DAIty NEWS In footprint of north tower at Ground Zero, amid thousands of bouquets and single flowers left by iite to wmm Police officer kneels By GREG GITTRICH DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER mm mm As a roll call of the dead echoed through Ground Zero yesterday, a sad procession of families descended into the void where their loved ones perished a victims' kin and friends. Bloomberg. Gov.

Pataki followed the pause by reading the Gettysburg Address. Then, as cellist Yo-Yo Ma played former Mayor Rudy Giuliani began the recitation of the victims' names. "Gordon M. Aamoth Giuliani said. The 32-yeair-old worked for investment firm'Sah-dler O'Neill Partners on the south tower's 104th floor.

Among the 196 readers who followed Giuliani were relatives of the dead, survivors of the attack, workers who cleared the rubble, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, actor Robert De Niro and former Mayor David Din-kins. At 9:03 a.m., the moment the second tower was hit, the roll call paused for the ringing of a ceremonial bell. Marianne Keane, 17, whose stepfather, Franco Lalama, a Port Authority engineer, died in the attack, stood at the The wind at times both furious and uplifting refused to relent, coating the thousands with powder during the nearly three-hour ceremony. "My son is kicking up the dust," said Maureen Santora of Astoria, Queens, her eyes wet after hearing the name of her fallen boy Christopher Santora read aloud.

"He's saving, 'Please don't worry. I'm in a better The families began arriving yesterday before dawn, and by 7 a.m., nearly two hours before the start of the ceremony, about 1,000 of them filled a waiting area on West St. Their numbers would swell at least threefold before the first skirl was heard from the Fire Department's pipe and drum corps at 7:39 a.m. Even more would arrive later. The ceremony began with a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., introduced by Mayor With additional reporting by: RALPH R.

ORTEGA, MAM BECKER, ROBERT HGMSSU aad KERRY BURKE Rescue 5 Firefighter Carl Bird, died there. "Right now, we're looking at nothing," Bini said, holding an empty cigar box she planned to fill with soil. "I miss my son. I wish he was here. I can't believe he's gone.

I can't believe it's a year. I feel he's still going to come home." Sacred silence From the moment the city fell silent at 8:46 a.m. exactly 12 months after the first hijacked jet struck the World Trade Center a strong wind rushed over Ground Zero, lifting great clouds of dust into the heavens. year ago. It took two hours and 29 min utes to read the names of everyone killed Sept.

11, far longer than terrorists needed to bring the twin towers down. Clutching photographs of their slain loved ones, relatives of the 2,801 victims searched for something tangible to take from the sacred earth. They drifted across the scarred 16 acres, seemingly looking for the exact place where their mother, father, sister, brother or child died that day. Many left flowers, photographs and hand-written notes in a large circle at the floor of The Pit. Several fell to their knees and grabbed handfuls of dirt.

Others wept or whispered prayers for the 1,399 victims who have yet to be found. "This is where my brother is, so this is where I have to be," said Laurie Vigeant, who waited patiently near the top of a 515-foot steel ramp the same path used by recovery workers for nine months to carry out the dead. "They never found his body," she said of her brother Gary Frank, 35, who worked in the south tower. "This is where he is. There will be no closure for me." The emptiness of Ground Zero, cleared months ago of 1.8 million tons of tortured wreckage, struck Lillian Bird.

Her son,.