Mourning gives way to memories

0 Comments | USA TODAY, September, 2007 | by Charisse Jones

NEW YORK -- In a small glass box lay the artifacts of a son's life.

There was a driver's license bearing an address to which Alexander Braginsky would never return after Sept. 11, 2001. There was his employee ID card and a dusty wallet, recovered the day after the terror attacks, bearing a crumpled bank card.

"I realized when I go, somebody will come to the apartment and just throw everything away," Melly Braginsky said, explaining why she put her only child's possessions on display Monday. "That's why I came here. ... I'm doing everything for his memory."

As the nation commemorates the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks today, Braginsky and dozens of others whose loved ones perished that day gathered near Ground Zero to participate in...