Blogosphere fills with 9/11 memories and more

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PARIS (AFP) — Five years to the day from the September 11 attacks, the international blogosphere filled with a litany of poignant memories, personal tributes, political harangues and pleas for peace. In the US, hundreds of bloggers signed up to the "2996 project" in which Internet diarists are matched with individuals who died in the four suicide hi-jackings and pay homage to their memory.

"In the days following September 11, 2001, I was one of the millions of Americans who pledged to 'never forget,'" writes D.C. Roe, who instigated the idea. "But ... I didn't keep my promise. Though I didn't forget the victims, I also never took the time to know them. 2,996 is, in a sense, my self-imposed penance, my mea culpa," he writes Monday, ahead of a tribute to Candace Lee Williams,...