Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue and visit the World Trade Center ground zero ahead of celebrating Mass at Yankee Stadium.

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In New York, families and friends who lost loved ones at the World Trade Center gathered at Ground Zero for a solemn ceremony.

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Critics said the center's proximity to ground zero was unacceptable, while supporters argued it was meant to bring people together.

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The privately rebuilt number 7 World Trade Center, just north of ground zero, is almost complete, but it's failed to attract any tenants.

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Three years earlier, in October, 2006, a thirty-one-year-old lawyer from Weston, Connecticut, named Andrew Michaelson started working at the New York office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, at 3 World Financial Center, just west of Ground Zero.

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"It's a war that I feel we just won, " said one former New York firefighter -- who says he was forced to retire due to lung ailments suffered from dust at ground zero -- the site where the World Trade Center's twin towers once stood.

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Miami, long known as ground zero for the complex scams, was again at the center of Tuesday's busts with 25 people charged for their role in various schemes.

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"The country is well aware of his courageous service in responding to the World Trade Center attack, his efforts to coordinate rescue and recovery work at Ground Zero, " the senior administration official said.

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All that is dead and gone now, the assets sold off repeatedly, staff reduced to near zero, local production uprooted, even the storefront, which had been in the center of town, sold.

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