Standing beside the two monolithic foundations of the Twin Towers, President Barack Obama, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Governor Andrew Cuomo and others addressed the tearful audience of survivors, first responders, and families of the victims in the newly opened National September 11 Memorial Museum.
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President Obama before the crowd (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
“It is honor for us to join in your memories, to recall and to reflect, but above all to reaffirm the true spirit of 9/11 — love, compassion, sacrifice — and to enshrine it forever in the heart of our nation,” said President Obama, who spoke for nine minutes.
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Mayor de Blasio speaks (Mike Segar/REUTERS)
“Ordinary, everyday objects that we find here in the museum – a wallet, a ring, an ID card, a telephone – are unlikely, but powerful keepsakes, which help us understand the events of that day in human terms,” said Mayor de Blasio. “Each piece carries with it another story, one that might have been our own.”
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The audience (Mike Segar/REUTERS)
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President Obama speaks (John Angelillo-Pool/Getty Images)
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An FDNY fireman looks at the last column recovered at the World Trade Center (John Munson-Pool/Getty Images)
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Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and former President Bill Clinton were in attendance (Richard Drew/Getty Images)
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First responders step onto the stage (Mike Segar/REUTERS)
The National September 11 Memorial Museum– located at ground zero– will open to the public May 21, 2014.
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