THEN, AND NOW: GROUND ZERO
May 5, 2011 | Source: Monroe Gallery of Photography
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Eric Draper: Ground Zero, New York City, September 14, 2001
May 5, 2011: On a morning so clear, so blue and so sunny that it recalled the morning of September 11, 2011, President Barrack Obama arrived in New York to lay a wreath at the 9/11 Memorial and meet with families of September 11 victims and, along the way, to meet with firefighters at a Midtown firehouse that lost 15 men on September 11.
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Doug Mills/The New York Times
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President Obama laid a wreath at ground zero on Thursday, May 5, 2011

AP