Bush's RV Travel Journal

Bush's RV Travel Journal

Friday, December 11, 2015

9/11 Memorial & Museum

                                                    DAY IN NYC GROUND ZERO 

               Its hard to put into words how it felt...all I can say it felt like it was yesterday...


There was a part of the museum that photos weren't allowed to honor the victims. It was filled with their photos, personal belongings, emergency recusers badges & hard hats, 911 recordings, actual TV live recordings, recording repeating each victim's names with a little personal information on their lives. It takes your breathe away just listening to their voices on the 9/11 recordings.......  so SAD























Photos that family members posted at ground zero









Actual flag that was hung up by the workers to declare that WE Will Stand Again!!!!





A Statue of Liberty dressed with pictures of the victims, letters from their love ones, miniature flags from all over the world in support of the USA


 



                                          Fire truck of the first responders who didn't survive



The attack killed nearly 3000 people from 93 nations....2,753 killed in NY...184 people killed at the Pentagon....40 people were killed on Flight 93




Memorial's Twin Reflecting Pools
The pools are nearly an acre in size they sit within the footprints where the Twin Towers once stood. 






The names of every person who died in the 2001 & 1993 attacks are inscribed into bronze panels edging the Memorial pools, a powerful reminder of the largest loss of life resulting from a foreign attack on American soil & the greatest single loss of rescue personnel in American history.




A callery pear tree became known as the "Survivor Tree" after enduring the 9/11 attack. In October 2001 the tree was discovered at Ground Zero severely damaged, with snapped roots & burned & broken branches. The tree was removed from the rubble & placed in the care of the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation. After its recovery & rehabilitation, the tree was returned to the Memorial in 2010. Today, the tree stands as a living reminder of resilience, survival, & rebirth
This young boy probably wasn't born yet & probably thinking "WHY?"



Our New Freedom Tower

One World Trade Center completed July 2013. Cost $3.9 billion
The tower's steel structure was topped out on 8-30-12. On May 10, 2013, the final component of the skyscraper's spire was installed, making the building, including its spire, reach a total height of 1,776 feet. Its height in feet is a deliberate reference to the year when the United States Declaration of Independence was signed.



This is a day we'll always remember
September 11, 2001


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