CLASS by class, students at M.V. Leckie Elementary, in Washington, filed up to the freshly poured cement walkway. They dropped to their knees and pressed their palms and fingers into the mush, beginning the transformation of a patch of barren land into a flowering memorial.
On this plot on a residential street alongside their brown brick school, they were remembering sixth-grader Bernard Brown, 11, his teacher Hilda Taylor, 62, and two parents of Leckie students, all of whom died in the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, 2001.
