1||President Barack Obama on Thursday visited New York City firefighters and police and laid a wreath at ground zero to honor 9/11 victims. Just days after announcing the U.S. had killed Osama bin Laden, Obama told firefighters “I just wanted to come here and thank you.”
After laying the wreath of red, white and blue flowers, Obama bowed his head for a moment of silence.||newscom/ANDREW GOMBERT/EFE&&
2||The wreath-laying ceremony took place near the “survivors tree” at ground zero, Reuters reports, a tree that survived the attacks on the World Trade Center towers.||newscom/ANDREW GOMBERT/EFE&&
3||Obama meets with New York City police.||newscom/JOHN ANGELILLO POOL/EFE&&
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5||Obama steps off Air Force One after arriving at John F. Kennedy airport before the ceremony.||newscom/CHARLES GUERIN/MCT&&
6||Obama meets with the “Pride of Midtown” Engine 54 firehouse in Manhattan. “This is a symbolic site of the extraordinary sacrifice that was made on that terrible day almost 10 years ago,” Obama told the firefighters.||newscom/JOHN ANGELILLO POOL/EFE&&
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8||Crowds gathered near ground zero to observe the ceremony.||newscom/JUSTIN LANE/EFE&&
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11||Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday also laid a wreath at the Pentagon to honor 9/11 victims and first-responders. Defense Secretary Robert Gates joined Biden at the ceremony.||newscom/SHAWN THEW/EFE&&
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