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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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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"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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"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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