PEOPLE in the Forest of Dean and Wye Valley have reacted with an outpouring sympathy for the victims of the US terrorist outrages and their grieving families and friends.
Some of course were touched personally, losing friends or – sometimes harder to bear – not knowing whether they survived.
Civic and political leaders were swift to express their own feelings and books of condolence have been opened in district and county council offices as well as many churches. Flags were flown at half-mast.
"On behalf of everyone in the Forest of Dean, I offer our condolences to the American people," said Forest MP Diana Organ.
It was an expression echoed by Forest council chairman David Clarke and his county counterparts in Gloucester and Monmouth.
The 11am silence was observed universally on Friday, while the prayers of Sunday church congregations called for help for those who suffered and guidance for the still-dark days ahead.
On Sunday Alan Twyman and five other bellringers from Newland, St Briavels and Lydney rang a quarter peal of bells, half muffled, at All Saints, Newland, in memory of all the innocent victims of the tragedy.