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Daily News from New York, New York • 107

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107
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irdm ffir My By USA COLANGEL0 DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU There was a moment ever so fleeting early yesterday when former Mayor Rudy Giuliani woke up and wondered if he really had to relive the horror of Sept. 11 one year later. "I didn't have much of a choice," he said. "But then I thought it would be a good thing to relive it. We have to continually remember the people we lost." A day after he buried his mother, Giuliani bore witness again to the devastation of Sept.

11, keeping a schedule as packed with emotion and activity as it was when he was mayor. Giuliani started the morning with a series of TV interviews, then made the solemn journey back to Ground Zero, where he began the reading of the names of the 2,801 victims. "I wanted to be at Ground Zero," Giuliani said. "I stood there to listen to all the names because I wanted to look at the families. I wanted to look at the people and see how many names I remembered, how many more I could learn about." Afterward he went with Mayor Bloomberg and Gov.

Pataki to ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange, and then to St. Peter's Church across from Ground Zero. "This is where Father My-chal Judge was taken," Giuliani said of the beloved Fire Department chaplain who was killed Sept 1 1. "When I heard that he had died I said. That's the person I would have gone to for advice.

He's now gone. I'm and I wanted to come back to this church because they took such good care of him." At the Regent Hotel, he ate lunch with members of the 91 1 Widows and Victims Families Association. He visited Engine Co. 4Ladder Co. 5 on South St.

and stood with President Bush during a late afternoon wreath-laying at the Trade Center site. He also made a stop at financial giant Morgan Stanley, which lost 13 employees in the attacks. Giuliani was cheered just about everywhere he went. But the man whose popularity has soared in the last year said others were more deserving of accolades. "We have to remember all the wonderful things that emerged from this horrific attack," he said.

"The bravery, the strength of the people, the rescuers who rescued more people than anybody ever did before in that period of time." ANDREW SAVUUCH DAILY NEWS I Linda Carter and son Lane, of Flower Mound, Tex. hold each other at World Trade Center site during ceremonies yesterday. Many people came from across country to attend. jU t9O.I-' I -i jl would give anything to go to the morning of Sept. 1 1 and tell him how much I appreciated everything he's done for me," she said.

"But I think he 2 knows that now. In my eyes, he died a hero. And how much more could you ask for?" The reading of the names paused again at 9:59 a.m., when the south tower collapsed, and then at 10:29 a.m., when the north tower fell. At that moment, nearby church bells rang out and horns on boats in the Hudson River groaned. Wanda Ortiz, who had stood tall until then, began to shake.

Her hands squeezed the handle of a double stroller that cradled her fatherless 18-month-old twins. "This is a nightmare, a total nightmare," she said. When the name of her slain husband, Emilio Ortiz, was read over a loudspeaker moments later, his sister Milagros though the buildings fell, the foundation on which all Americans stand never fell. For it is the sacred principle of freedom and equality on which we build our lives." At the end of the ceremony, Bloomberg gave way to New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey, who read an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence.

The ceremony closed with the playing of taps, but some families lingered throughout the day. Altagracia Munoz, 62, of Corona, Queens, descended into The Pit hoping for answers about her son, Frank Munoz, whose body has not been found. She placed flowers in an area dubbed the Circle of Honor and left her son's missing poster. But when it was over yesterday, she knew as much as she did Sept. 1 1 about what had happened to her Frank.

"Nothing," his heartbroken mother said. 35, cried out in pain. "No, no, no," she shouted, standing in a crowd of mourners on the western edge of The Pit. "Not my brother. They killed my brother." The reading of names ended with Igor Zukelman, 29, who worked at Fiduciary Trust Company International in the north tower.

'Fitting and beautiful Many of those who attended said they were pleased with the ceremony. "We are mortal people made of dust," said Veronica 25, who placed a flower on the uneven bedrock floor for her slain cousin Jennifer DeJesus, 24, of Brooklyn. "It was fitting and beautiful." Bloomberg served as the de facto master of ceremonies. "One year ago the ground were are standing on shook and the earth gave way," he said. "Al TODD MJUSEL DAILY NEWS Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani at podium to begin reading victims' names during Ground Zero memorial..

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