Reply #47: Bush proclaims a day "of renewing resolve"

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I am beginning to cringe at that word "resolve"


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003253244_911news11.html

Monday, September 11, 2006 - Page updated at 12:00 AM


Bush proclaims a day "of renewing resolve"

By The Associated Press and McClatchy Newspapers


President Bush and his wife, Laura, lay a wreath Sunday at Ground Zero in New York in commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

NEW YORK — President Bush and his wife, Laura, stood in somber silence on Sunday after laying wreaths at the site where the twin towers of the World Trade Center once soared. He later pledged to make the anniversary "a day of renewing resolve" to remember the lessons of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

The Bushes set floral wreaths adrift in reflecting pools that mark the former locations of the north and south towers at the beginning of a two-day fifth-anniversary tour that will take them to all three sites of devastation.

They made a slow procession down a long ramp lined with a flag-bearing honor guard made up of firefighters and police officers, making their way four or five stories below ground level. Uttering no words, the Bushes walked hand-in-hand on the floor of the cavernous pit with bagpipes wailing in the background.

Afterward, the Bushes attended a service of prayer and remembrance at nearby St. Paul's Chapel, greeted firefighters at a firehouse overlooking Ground Zero and toured a private museum next door that is dedicated to 9/11 families.......