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Marc Giauque reporting from Ground ZeroEmotions are close to the surface today for a lot of New Yorkers, whether they lost loved ones or not in the World Trade Center towers.
As the names of victims are read, businessmen at the One World Business Towers stand outside of their offices. Phil Countsman was here five years ago, his eyes watered when there were moments of silence. The day before, he says he was on the 105th floor of the towers.
"Day to day we kind of forget, and I don't ever want to forget that day and all the good friends I lost, says Countsman. "So it was more important than being upstairs."
Even five years after the fact, and although he sees it almost every day, Counsman says he still has trouble with the reality of what happened.
Around the reverence of the names being read today at the World Trade Center, a lot of unofficial ceremonies went on, with just as much emotion. On Church and Liberty Streets, two huge bells towed by trailers are there for firefighters and the public to ring. Initially set up for firefighters who died here and their chaplin, Brother David Schlatter says the bells now represent more.
"It includes the law enforcement people who died for the Port Authority, the police department, the New York City Police Department, and really everybody," says Schlatter. "We have a bell in honor of the 1,157 people who haven't been identified yet."
Just to the west, the newly re-painted doors of Ladder Company 10, right next to the World Trade Center, firefighters there were among the first to respond.
