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Barack Obama: “It is an honor for us to join in your remembrance, to recall and to reflect. But above all to reaffirm the true spirit…”

On the recordMay 14, 2014
It is an honor for us to join in your remembrance, to recall and to reflect. But above all to reaffirm the true spirit of 9/11. Love, compassion, sacrifice, and to enshrine it forever in the heart of our nation.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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President Obama speaks at the dedication of the National 9/11 Memorial Museum, emphasizing the values of love, compassion, and sacrifice.

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