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Vice President Joe Biden, in an emotional speech at the Pentagon, hailed the "9/11 generation" as "among the greatest our nation has ever produced."

Biden, alongside Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, gathered to recognize the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, while praise the efforts of the military, in particular Americans who joined the fight after that day.

Those attacks "galvanized an entire new generation, the 9/11 generation," he said.

"It was born, it was born, it was born, right here on 9/11," he added later, voice escalating.

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