National 9/11 Memorial & Museum – “Ground Zero”
What comes to mind when you think of 9/11?
Is it the inescapable image of an airplane crashing into a skyscraper?
I’ve visited this site 3 times now. My first visit back in 2006, still displayed a huge hole in the ground where it looks like they were still removing the foundations of the twin towers. My later visits in 2016 and 2017 it was a different experience wi the new Memorial and Museum erected.
Located where the Twin Towers once stood, there are now two large grey chasms in the ground from which water cascades down all four sides before gathering in a pool and finally plunging into a dark void in the middle, seemingly descending to the centre of the Earth.
On the brass rims around these twin pools you’ll find stencil-cut names of every person who died in the terrorist attacks of February 26, 1993 and September 11, 2001. At nighttime, lights shine up through each letter illuminating the names.
These two pools make up the 9/11 Memorial, which is free of charge and open to the public daily from 7:30 am to 9 pm.
Occupying eight of the 16 acres at the World Trade Center, the Memorial is a tribute to the past and a place of hope for the future.
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