A procession and commemoration service are also taking place in York later.
In York, a choral evensong was held at the city's Minster, followed by a commemoration service and a procession through the city.
Righteous indignance was expressed today, for the most part by younger members of the community, for the fact that the city did not take this day off so that they could honor those who had died, that people had to work and go to school and so could not join the procession, the commemorations around the city, but especially this one in the Lower Ninth.
Even as new intelligence information and threats of terrorism reminiscent of ones detected a year earlier prompted the Bush administration yesterday to put the country on high alert, Americans are going ahead with plans for memorial services, bagpipe processions, peace vigils, prayer services, tree plantings and commemorations of every imaginable sort.
The bagpipes began filling the 9/11 Memorial plaza with sound a little after 7 30 a.m., readying for the procession that will begin New York's 11th anniversary commemoration of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at 8 39 a.m. on a cool Tuesday.
National service of commemoration, Glasgow Cathedral, attended by Prince of Wales and David Cameron, followed by a procession to the cenotaph, George Square, for a wreath-laying service, and march-past at 11.30am.
The candle was then taken in procession to St Andrew's Cathedral, before a Highland-wide service of commemoration.
Nevertheless, in a country as socially and geographically diverse as Mexico, there is significant regional variation in the nature of festivities: the southern state of Chiapas is far more likely to focus its efforts on processions and public commemorations of death than the valley of Mexico, where the decoration of altars in homes and tombs of the deceased is more popular.
Just no official commemoration.
