Denver Seen: A post 9/11 moment
By Andy Piper 
| September 11, 2009 | 7:01 AM
Denver Seen is an occasional series of pictures of Denver life, past and present, by RMI photographers
A Denver police officer gets a handshake and a pat on the shoulder from passersby the Saturday after Sept. 11, 2001, during a solidarity march and demonstration in Civic Center following the terror attacks in New York, Washington D.C., and over Pennsylvania. (Photo by RMI multimedia reporter Andy Piper)
The procession was somber.
It was only four days after the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and a thousand or so Coloradans had gathered on the steps of the state Capitol to share their grief, their pride in America and their determination to fight back. Now they were leaving.
A policeman stood along the parade route, blocking traffic for the marchers, his badge black-draped in honor of the fallen cops and firefighters of New York. Spontaneously, a hand came out of the stream of people to take his hand and shake it. Then another. Then another.
As I brought the camera up to my eye, I stooped slightly to put myself on the level of the most important thing in the picture — the gesture of the meeting hands.
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