EDITORIAL GRIEF ...

THERE are whole communities in the greater New York area that spent most of last fall going from one funeral to the next - a husband, a neighbor, a client, a best friend.

More than 3,000 names make up the list of victims, and that's only the number of the deceased. Those numbers skyrocket when you include the children who lost a parent, the families that lost a provider, the lovers who lost lifelong mates.

Then there are those who were injured, both physically and psychologically - their lives forever changed.

There are plenty of memorials to that truly awful day and the lives extinguished on it, but none is so dramatic as the sight of ground zero: the gigantic pit that remains where soaring skyscrapers once stood. That pit is a mass grave to victims of the most unspeakable and vile attack the country has ever known.

A year later, we still mourn their loss. Our hearts ache with a sense of grief that has never fully gone away.