The Queen's Message to America

the square. The first signature was that of Prince Charles. He visited Wednesday evening in naval uniform of Rear Admiral of the Royal Navy. He told officials that the victims and their families were "very much in his thoughts and prayers." On Thursday his companion Camilla Parker Bowles was one of the many visitors to leave a floral tribute and sign the Book.

A very beautiful and poignant monument stands outside London's St.Paul's Cathedral. It commemorates in bronze and stone the many firefighters who gave their lives for democracy and freedom during the carnage of Hitler's 1940 blitzkrieg on London and other major cities in England, Scotland and Wales. The blitz was unleashed upon London on September 7, 1940. 43,000 Londoners were killed in 57 consecutive nights of firebombing and horror in those dark days of terror. 61 years later, Londoners are laying their flowers at the monument's foot in tribute to the firefighters who so tragically lost their lives beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center in the course of their duty.

The fire-razed city churches across the land are now rebuilt and restored to their former glory. On Friday morning many will be filled as we offer our prayers for the as yet uncountable thousands of Americans and many hundreds of British and European citizens who were slain on the sunlit morning of Black Tueday, September 11, 2001. And in our sorrow let us give thanks for those who miraculously survived this terrible act, and for the courage and dedication of those who labour on the the rubble and the hospitals to save the spark of life in cruelly battered bodies.

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