The next couple pages are graphic intense, thank you for your patience. I hesitate to post some of these images but as I view them myself, I am once again filled with sorrow for the families and victims of this tragedy. A month has passed and still Americans mourn, tears flow freely, the serach continues, our hearts break as we watch and wait. No words can express the feelings, but these photos tell the story. God bless the families, victims, workers, our President; God Bless America!

Workers at the World Trade Center disaster site look up at a large illuminated cross near the rubble of the collapsed buildings in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2001. (AP Photo/Ed Betz)

Two firefighters join hands during a ceremony at which a cross of steel beams,center, is blessed Thursday, Oct. 4, 2001, at Ground Zero on the northwestern side of the World Trade tower attacks site. The cross was found by a laborer at the site two days after the twin towers' collapse and later moved to its present location. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens,pool)

A cast iron cross found in the rubble of the World Trade Center has been adopted by rescue workers as a symbol of faith and blessed with holy water by a Franciscan priest. The 20-foot-tall cross, consisting of two metal beams, fell intact from one of the twin towers into a nearby building.

Laborer Frank Silecchia, 47, found the cross standing almost upright two days after the towers toppled Sept. 11. "Some people will say it's velocity or physics that put it there. To me it's an act of God," said Silecchia.

Since then, rescue workers have made pilgrimages to pray or meditate near the cross. Some etch messages on it. "God Bless Our Fallen Brothers," reads one tribute.

On Wednesday, workers hoisted the cross atop a 40-foot-high foundation. Construction workers, firefighters and police officers stood quietly by as the Rev. Brian Jordan blessed it with holy water. "Behold the glory of the cross at ground zero," Jordan said. "This is our symbol of hope, our symbol of faith, our symbol of healing."

Firefighters and other workers surround a body in prayer that was pulled from the rubble of the northern World Trade Center Tower in the early morning hours, Sunday, Oct.7, 2001. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)

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