Tuesday, May 3, 2011

9/11 memorial

This was the memorial built at the site of the twin towers. It's quite eerie. There's a a square where the building was (forgotten which tower) and plaques etc and this structure. Apparently it's made from girders from the rubble of the twin towers. When they have finished building the new world trade center, which will not be replicas of what they were before 9/11, a light from this will be lit to shine into the sky.  There is also a memorial nearby where you can see models of the new buildings and see photos and videos etc of the event, as well as tributes at the local church to those that died. Very sad. I thought we should see it when we went to NYC, because Australia followed the US to Afghanistan (then Iraq) and Australian soldiers have also died there. In light of reports of Osama Bin Laden's death, I thought I'd put this online.

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