President Obama To Attend Sept. 11 Museum Dedication Ceremony

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – President Barack Obama is scheduled to attend the National September 11 Memorial Museum’s dedication ceremony on Thursday.

The steel and glass museum houses more than 10,000 artifacts, 23,000 photographs, 1,900 oral histories and 500 hours of film and video.

The public symbols of survival and loss include the battered “survivors’ staircase” that hundreds used to escape as the skyscrapers burned and crumbled.

There is also the memento-covered last column removed during the ground zero cleanup and the cross-shaped steel beams that became an emblem of remembrance. (An atheists’ group has sued, so far unsuccessfully, seeking to stop the display of the cross).

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