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Obama honors bombing victims in Boston

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President Barack Obama attended the "Healing Our City: An Interfaith Service" at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston today. The service is dedicated to those who were gravely wounded or killed in Monday's bombing near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
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A foam finger stood at a makeshift memorial on Boylston Street in Boston, near the blast site of the Boston Marathon explosions today. The city continues to cope following Monday's explosions near the finish line of the marathon.

BOSTON » President Barack Obama declared "there is a piece of Boston in me" as he paid tribute to a city shaken by what he has called an act of terror. He said: "Every one of us stands with you."

Obama addressed an interfaith service in the aftermath of Monday’s twin blasts that killed three and injured more 170 people at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Obama said a day of beauty was shattered when a celebration became a tragedy.

He said Boston gathered Tuesday, quote, "to reaffirm that the spirit of this city is undaunted."

He declared: "You will run again!"

Of the perpetrator, he said: "We will find you."

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