9/11 Memorial Plaza Opens To The Public
The plot of land known for a decade as "the pile,'' "the pit'' and "Ground Zero'' is opening to the public for the first time since that terrible morning in 2001
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The plot of land known for a decade as "the pile,'' "the pit'' and "Ground Zero'' is opening to the public for the first time since that terrible morning in 2001
An emotional ceremony took place in the shadow of the new World Trade Center as New York City and the world marked the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
In the days following 9/11, victims' family members came to St. Peter's Church just up the street from where the Twin Towers fell, to find comfort. They returned 10 years later to remember the fallen.
During the 10th anniversary ceremony of the September 11 terror attacks Sunday, families of the innocents entered the memorial for the first time.
Nearly 500 Long Islanders were among the 9/11 victims. More than 2,000 friends and family members of those victims attended the Point Lookout ceremony Sunday morning.
While the eyes of the world turned to the World Trade Center site and 9/11 National Memorial in Lower Manhattan for the ceremony marking 10 years since the attack on America, it was far from the only memorial taking place.
Fortress New York. That's what it seems like out on the streets of the city on the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attack on America.
Dahler was on his fire escape, only a few blocks north of the World Trade Center, with a clear view of the Twin Towers, talking live on national television when the second plane hit.
Designed by architects Jessica Jamroz and Frederic Schwarz, the memorial's towers are sunk into a berm and divided by a granite walkway that faces on a line to the World Trade Center site across the Hudson River.
"The world may have called them brave, but we just call it doing our jobs," said Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano. "They died doing what they joined the fire department to do: helping others."
At the starting point late Saturday morning, the mayor, who is in his third and final term, emphasized the 10th anniversary of the trade center attack on Sept. 11, 2001.
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