Moment of justice

In the wake of bin Laden’s death, U.S. President Barack Obama visits Ground Zero to connect with victims’ families rift gold and a historic firehall. Days after the killing of Osama bin Laden, U.S. President Barack Obama met New York firefighters and police Thursday and visited Ground Zero to offer comfort to a city still scarred by the Sept. 11 attacks.
His predecessor George W. Bush, just three days after hijacked planes destroyed the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, stood bullhorn in hand in the smoldering wreckage to declare: “The people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.”
Almost a decade later, in a bookend to that historic visit, Obama came to New York to say that promise had been kept.
He said rift gold the killing of bin Laden told the world, “that when we say we will never forget, we mean what we say.”
Obama visited the “Pride of Manhattan” Engine 54 firehouse in midtown, which lost 15 members in the attacks, before heading to Lower Manhattan to talk with police and lay a wreath at Ground Zero where he met with victims’ families.