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President Barack Obama stands with police and firefighters in New York City before laying a wreath at the site of the 9/11 Memorial at ground zero and meeting with families who lost loved ones in the terrorist attacks in New York, May 5, 2011.

NEW YORK MEMORIAL

President Barack Obama stands with police and firefighters in New York City before laying a wreath at the site of the 9/11 Memorial at ground zero and meeting with families who lost loved ones in the terrorist attacks in New York, May 5, 2011.

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