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Some made longer remarks than had been the tradition, invoking God, telling anecdotes and thanking first responders and the military. Perhaps because no officials sat on the stage, the readers seemed to feel freer to make the ugg boots sale event their own. One woman recited a poem. Another described how her husband made breakfast on Sunday mornings.
"These are not just names that we read," Anthony Chiofalo said, his voice wavering.
Several hundred people wandered through the plaza over the course of the morning. They marked names with roses and flags, greeted friends with hugs and sat on stone benches in the dappled shade. Behind the stage stood the still-incomplete 9/11 Museum, which was supposed to have opened in time for this year's anniversary. Construction on the project has been held up by a dispute between New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the governors of New York and New Jersey.
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