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# Barack Obama lays wreath at ground zero
## US President Barack Obama met New York firefighters and visited ground
zero to offer comfort to a city still scarred by the September 11 attacks.
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His predecessor George W. Bush, just three days after hijacked planes
destroyed the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, stood bullhorn in hand in the
smouldering wreckage to declare: "The people who knocked these buildings down
will hear all of us soon."
Almost a decade later, in a bookend to that historic visit, Obama came to New
York to say that promise had been kept.
At ground zero during a bright and sunny afternoon, Obama shook hands with
police officers and firefighters, then laid a wreath of red, white and blue
flowers to honour those who died. Obama then paused, bowed his head, closed
his eyes and held his hands together for a moment of silence.
Obama, who made no remarks at the site, greeted relatives of victims.
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