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 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush honored 442 firefighters, police officers, and rescuers who died Sept. 11, awarding posthumous Medals of Valor to their families at a White House ceremony Friday.
"A proud America will always stand in the shadow of their service and sacrifice," Bush told a crowd of some 1,200 friends and family, who wore cards with the names of their lost loved ones.
In the crowd, Dena Smagala smiled and videotaped the president's speech as her three-year-old daughter Alexa, wearing red, white and blue ribbons in her hair, played barefoot in the grass of the south lawn of the White House.
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