Remembering September 11.....

As Americans and the world remember the terrorists attacks of Sept 11, 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush vowed that Americans will overcome the ordeal presented by Hurricane Katrina which has left scenes of destruction in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast. Bush used his weekly radio address to remember the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, saying Americans were pulling together to help Katrina victims just as they did the victims of the hijacked-plane attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC)and the Pentagon. "Today, America is confronting another disaster that has caused destruction and loss of life. This time the devastation resulted not from the malice of evil men, but from the fury of water and wind," Bush said. Hurricane Katarina will go down as the largest natural disaster in American history.
For the record, three Malaysians were among those killed in the Sept 11 attacks, four years ago. Twenty-three year old Vijayashanker Paramsothy, a financial analyst, and about 200 others were waiting for lifts to the ground floor when United Airlines Flight 175 ripped into the 78th floor of the WTC's South Tower at 9.03am. The plane that chrashed into the South Tower came 16 1/2 minutes after American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston slammed into the North Tower at 8.46am. The South Tower collapsed first at 9.59am before the North Tower came down at 10.28am. Two other Malaysians, both women, killed in the attacks were Ang Siew Nya, 37, a technical analyst with Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc and Khoo Sei Lai, 38, an executive vice-president and portfolio manager at Fred Alger Management.