Friends, family and officers gathered yesterday at a Ground Zero church to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the 1993 terror attack on the World Trade Center.
The Feb. 26, 1993, bombing killed seven, including an unborn child.
A few dozen firemen, cops, Port Authority police officers and emergency-service workers attended the solemn ceremony at the Catholic Church of St. Peter on Church Street.
Some officers, with respirators and earphones draped about their necks, took a few minutes off from their never-ending work at Ground Zero.
“We come to celebrate Mass every year,” said Pat Cena, 66, a retired WTC carpenter. “But it was double special this year. We lost a lot of friends.”
Vito Rodriguez, of Woodhaven, Queens, is the brother of Monica Smith, who died with her unborn child.
“I feel terrible,” he said. “Like they said, 9/11 just opened the wounds all over again.”
WTC Executive Director Charles Maikish said the 1993 and Sept. 11 attacks must be linked forever.
“Our message should be one World Trade Center family suffering from a continuing event,” he said.