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| Barack Obama Hails 'True Spirit' |
| Barack Obama Hails 'True Spirit' of 9/11 at New Museum
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 15-May-2014
13:14:36 PM |
| US President Barack Obama on Thursday hailed the love and sacrifice he said was "the true spirit of 9/11" as he inaugurated a searing Ground Zero museum about Al-Qaeda attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people.
Obama said the museum, in the footprint of the former World Trade Center Twin Towers, would ensure that the horror and heroism of September 11, 2001 would never be forgotten by future generations.
Obama said it was an honor to recall "the true spirit of 9/11 - love, compassion, sacrifice - and to enshrine it forever in the heart of our nation."
"I want to express our deep gratitude to everybody who was involved in this great undertaking for bringing us to this day, for giving us this sacred place of healing and of hope," he said.
Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg said the museum was a "sacred marker of our past" and a "solemn gathering place."
The museum, with its 10,000 artifacts, provides an emotionally bracing experience likely to revive terrible memories of the attacks, which shattered the illusion that mainland America was insulated from threats facing much of the rest of the world.
Inside, a map charts the path of four hijacked airliners sent on a suicide mission on a crisp but fateful morning nearly 13 years ago.
There are poignant reminders of the people who went to work that day and never came home - a set of charred credit cards and a woman's shoe, as well as a crushed and burned fire engine memorializing the 343 New York firefighters who died.
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