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First Nail Ceremony - Inauguration 2013

House and Senate leaders grabbed their hammers for the First Nail Ceremony on Sept. 20, marking the launch of construction of the 2013 presidential inauguration platform.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., displays a construction hard hat which was worn by a worker who assisted in the cleanup at the World Trade Center site after 9/11 and the hammer belonging to a carpenter who works on the new One World Trade Center building during the First Nail Ceremony for the official launch of construction of the 2013 presidential inauguration platform.
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Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., displays a construction hard hat which was worn by a worker who assisted in the cleanup at the World Trade Center site after 9/11 and the hammer belonging to a carpenter who works on the new One World Trade Center building during the First Nail Ceremony for the official launch of construction of the 2013 presidential inauguration platform.

Credit: AP Photo/Cliff Owen

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