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The "Grief Tear" Memorial to the victims of 9/11 terrorist attacks made by Russian artist and sculptor Zurab Tsereteli opened to state anthems of Russia and the USA in Bayonne, New Jersey, on September, 11.
Ex-president of the USA Bill Clinton, Michael Chertoff, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, and Sergey Mironov, the speaker of the Federation Council, participated in the opening ceremony.
The "Grief Tear" Memorial, situated on the bank of the Hudson River, is a split 30-meter bronze plate with a giant tear made of titanium. The names of almost 3 thousand people killed on September, 11, 2001, are engraved on the monument. The memorial is the gift of Russian people, so Zurab Tsereteli and his colleagues took all the expenses on its erection up.
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