As the coverage of all the ceremonies remembering the attacks of September 11, 2001 is spread by the media, it's easy to look at the public posturing with a jaded eye. Please do not let cynicism numb you to the meaning of this day.

I ask people to remember how they felt this very Tuesday six years ago. Remember in silence all voices that were silence, the heartbeats that were stopped, and the lives that were ended. Remember not with tributes, parodies, or other works of art, but a complete and perfect silence.