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NEW YORK – With the plaintive sound of beating drums and then a moment of silence that hushed the crowd and brought many to tears, ceremonies began Sunday morning at Ground Zero and around the world to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
A woman cries while reading names inscribed at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial during the 10th anniversary ceremonies in New York on Sunday.
President Obama opened the ceremony at Ground Zero with a tribute to the thousands who died. He read from Psalms 46: "God is our strength" and "therefore we will not fear."
"The Lord of hosts is with us," Obama said in the solemn ceremony at the new Sept. 11 memorial. "The God of Jacob is our refuge."
The crowd cheered as former president George W. Bush, who rallied the country after the 2001 attacks, stepped up to the podium.
Bush quoted from a letter that President Lincoln wrote to a Civil War widow who had lost five sons in battle. Lincoln said he knew that his words would be be "weak and fruitless" at a time of such grief, but added that he could not refrain from expressing the "thanks of the Republic they died to save."
Family members began reading the names of 2,983 victims — 2,977 killed in New York, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, and six killed in the first terror attack on the trade center, a truck bomb in 1993.
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What a sad, sad, day.
A woman cries while reading names inscribed at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial during the 10th anniversary ceremonies in New York on Sunday.
President Obama opened the ceremony at Ground Zero with a tribute to the thousands who died. He read from Psalms 46: "God is our strength" and "therefore we will not fear."
"The Lord of hosts is with us," Obama said in the solemn ceremony at the new Sept. 11 memorial. "The God of Jacob is our refuge."
The crowd cheered as former president George W. Bush, who rallied the country after the 2001 attacks, stepped up to the podium.
Bush quoted from a letter that President Lincoln wrote to a Civil War widow who had lost five sons in battle. Lincoln said he knew that his words would be be "weak and fruitless" at a time of such grief, but added that he could not refrain from expressing the "thanks of the Republic they died to save."
Family members began reading the names of 2,983 victims — 2,977 killed in New York, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, and six killed in the first terror attack on the trade center, a truck bomb in 1993.
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9/11 LIVE: Scenes from the 9/11 anniversary
As the nation and the world mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Associated Press journalists are tracking down the most salient details of the day, and capturing the mood, from ground zero to Afghanistan and everywhere in between.
What a sad, sad, day.
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