NEW YORK — Before the president stood a flower wreath meant to signify closure for families of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, four days after U.S. commandos killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The wreath also represented completion of a circle at the Ground Zero site, from crematorium to cemetery to construction site. But a gaping hole where the twin towers of the World Trade Center once stood remains. In its footprint Thursday was a raw open plaza with half-laid stone and gravel trenches, where President Obama paid a brief tribute with a long minute of silence. Loaders, excavators and backhoes stood motionless, and the giant cranes sat suspended in midair above the bowed head of…
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