Photos: The National September 11 Memorial Museum officially opens

New September 11th Memorial Museum
Surviving firefighter Dan Potter's fire helmet, which he used at Ground Zero on September 11.
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President Barack Obama praised the new Sept. 11 museum on Thursday as "a sacred place of healing and of hope" that captures both the story and the spirit of heroism and helping others that followed the attacks. "It's an honor to join in your memories, to recall and to reflect, but above all to reaffirm the true spirit of 9/11 -- love, compassion, sacrifice -- and to enshrine it forever in the heart of our nation," he told an audience of victims' relatives, survivors, and rescuers at the ground zero museum's dedication ceremony. Here are some photos from the museum.

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