Real Respect.

or, "Their lives are bigger than... any big idea."

Forget those who would regularly trot out 9-11 widows, orphans, and deceased's family members as political pawns:

"No matter how many years pass, this time comes around each year - and it's always the same," said Karen Hinson of Seaford, N.Y., who lost her 34-year-old brother, Michael Wittenstein, a Cantor Fitzgerald employee.

"My brother was never found, so this is where he is for us," she said as she arrived for the ceremony with her family early Wednesday.
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Hinson said she would like the annual ceremony to be "more low-key, more private" as the years go by.
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That focus was clear as relatives gathered last September on the tree-laden plaza, with a smaller crowd than in some prior years.

After the throng and fervor that attended the 10th anniversary, "there was something very, very different about it," said Charles Wolf, whose wife, Katherine, was killed in the trade center's north tower. "It felt almost cemetery-ish, but not really. It felt natural."

*Please note also today those pundits, bloggers and blowhards who would continually use our memories of 9-11 to draw attention to themselves and their own careers.