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Date: September 11, 2011 /idns/us_news-9_11_ten_years_later Obama, Bush pay respects to 9/11 victims 2011-09-11T13:26:09 NEW YORK?— President Barack Obama read a psalm about refuge and strength and the names of the Sept. 11 dead echoed across a transformed ground zero Sunday as the nation and world marked 10 years since the worst terrorist attack on American soil. Standing before the white oak trees of the new Sept. 11 memorial, Obama read Psalm 46 from the Bible after a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., when the first jetliner slammed into the World Trade Centers north tower a decade ago. God is our refuge and strength, the psalm said. He dwells in his city, does marvelous things and says, be still and know that I am God. Earlier, Obama and former President George W. Bush bowed their heads at the trade center site and ran their hands over the bronze-etched names of the victims of the attack. Obama and Bush were joined by their wives as they walked up to one of the two reflecting pools built over the towers footprints, part of a Sept. 11 memorial that was to open later in the day for relatives of the victims. The president and former president later embraced family members and talked to dignitaries, including New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the governors of New York and New Jersey. Bloomberg, opening the ceremony of remembrance, said: Although we can never un-see what happened here, we can also see that children who lost their parents have grown into young adults. ... Good works have taken root in public service. Family members began reading the names of 2,983 victims — 2,977 killed in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, and six killed in first terror attack on the trade center, a truck bomb in 1993. As the sun rose, an American flag fluttered over six stories of the rising 1 World Trade Center. The sky was clear blue with scattered white clouds and a light breeze, not unlike the Tuesday mo