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Monday, September 13, 2010

9/11 in 2010, Remembrance and Rebuilding

People walk past the famous cross discovered in the rubble of Ground Zero prior to 9/11 commemorations outside the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2010 in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
A woman sits on a bench at the Pentagon Memorial prior to a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Arlington, Virginia on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. President Barack Obama called it "a day of remembrance, a day of reflection" after laying a wreath during the ceremony honoring the 184 government workers and airline passengers who died when hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the headquarters of the Defense Department nine years ago at 9:37 a.m. (Alex Wong/Bloomberg)
Construction continues at the World Trade Center site with memorial footprints of the twin towers visible September 7, 2010 in New York City. Officials provided an update on the rebuilding efforts as the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks approaches. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
One World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, seen under construction on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, in New York. When completed the building will rise to 1,776 feet (541 meters). (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
An ironworker pushes a beam into place on One World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Memorials built in the footprint of the World Trade Center towers are seen in front of One World Trade Center as it is being built at the World Trade Center construction site in New York September 8, 2010. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)
Construction materials sit in and around a memorial built in the footprint of the north tower of the World Trade Center tower at the World Trade Center construction site in New York September 8, 2010. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)
Construction workers complete detail work on the wall of one of the reflecting pools that will form part of the 9/11 memorial on Ground Zero August 31, 2010 in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
A sample stone slab inscribed with names of victims from the 9/11 terrorist attacks is seen at Ground Zero August 31, 2010 in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
A grove of sixteen swamp white oaks is planted at the National September 11 Memorial, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010 in New York. Crews Saturday began planting the 16 trees at the World Trade Center site. They are the first of nearly 400 trees to be planted around the eight-acre memorial to the nearly 3,000 people killed when terrorists attacked the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Workers continue construction inside the in-progress One World Trade Center tower August 31, 2010 in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
A 70-foot steel column recovered from the World Trade Center rubble is installed at the site of the 9/11 museum on the World Trade Center site September 7, 2010 in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
The outline of two squares memorializing the Twin Towers seen next to the rising new One World Trade Center (right) amidst the construction on Ground Zero in lower Manhattan August 24, 2010 in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
A construction worker on the structure of One World Trade Center at ground zero in New York on Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
The Tribute in Light rises behind the construction cranes on One World Trade Center, among the lower New York skyline, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. In an annual tradition, the two bright blue beams of light rise from lower Manhattan in memory of the fallen twin towers. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
The base of one of the two Tribute in Lights installations, being tested from a rooftop near ground zero on Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Jin Lee)
The Tribute in Lights, seen while looking up from inside one of the two installations on the ninth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2010. (REUTERS/Eric Thayer)
The Tribute in Lights illuminates the sky over lower Manhattan on September 11, 2010. (REUTERS/Gary Hershorn)
Looking up towards the Tribute in Lights above lower Manhattan on the ninth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2010. (REUTERS/Eric Thayer)