Obama Honors Victims of Bin Laden at Ground Zero
May-06-2011

President Obama laid a wreath of red, white and blue flowers at ground zero on Thursday, honoring the nearly 3,000 people killed in the September 2001 terrorist attacks and marking the death of the perpetrator, Osama bin Laden.
The hushed ceremony, on a sunny, breezy day, was a somber coda to a triumphal week that began with Mr. Obama's announcement Sunday night that American commandos had killed Bin Laden in his fortified compound in Pakistan.
Unlike so many other memorials held in this place, Thursday's was not just to mourn those who died but to celebrate that, at last, a measure of justice had been done.
In a four-hour visit that included stops across Manhattan, the president held one-to-one meetings with people whose lives had been wrenched apart by Bin Laden: relatives of the victims, as well as firefighters, police officers, and other rescue workers who lost comrades that morning nearly a decade ago.

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