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To: Ian@SI who wrote (52331)	9/16/2001 9:49:05 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 70976

New York's "bravest," "finest" to ring NYSE opening bell By Haitham Haddadin NEW YORK, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Representatives of New York's police and fire departments on Monday will ring the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange, honoring their comrades who lost their lives saving people after last week's air attacks on the World Trade Center. With the reopening of the U.S. stock markets on Monday morning, Wall Street will return to business after a four-day shutdown that followed Tuesday's devastation of the trade center in New York's financial district. Two minutes of silence to honor the victims of the attack and their families will follow the traditional opening bell, an NYSE spokeswoman said on Sunday. The NYSE, the world's largest stock market, is located three blocks southeast to the mountain of rubble that used to be the World Trade Center, in lower Manhattan. More than 5,000 people are believed killed, including firefighters and emergency service workers who went missing in the rubble as they raced in to save office workers from the raging fires. The fire department lost up to 350 people -- more than double the number of firefighters killed in action in the entire United States since 1977. Officials said more than 40 police officers of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, 23 New York Police Department officers, one FBI agent and one Secret Service agent were missing. To honor these heroes, representatives of the New York City police and fire departments, emergency and medical service people, port authority police and transportation authorities, will ring the bell, the NYSE spokeswoman said. They will be flanked by politicians, including New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, New York State Gov. George Pataki and U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, in addition to U.S. senators from New York, Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton. Among the dead were high-ranking New York City firemen, such as First Deputy Commissioner William Feehan and Chief of Department Peter Ganci. Fire Department chaplain Mychal Judge, died of a heart attack at the scene on Tuesday.