US President Barack Obama has told Americans they should honour those who died in the 9/11 attacks, but look to the future with "hearts full of hope".
He said the decade since the attacks showed Americans' resolve to defend their way of life.
The ideal that "men and women should govern themselves... has only been strengthened", he said.
Nearly 3,000 people died when four hijacked airliners crashed in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
Mr Obama was speaking during a memorial concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, closing a day of official commemorations of the 10th anniversary of the attacks,
Earlier in the day he had attended memorial ceremonies at the three sites where four airliners hijacked by al-Qaeda militants crashed: the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington and a Pennsylvania field.
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