WTC Memorial opens at Ground Zero

In the days after the 9/11 attacks, all of New York seemed to become a shrine to the dead. People left heaps of flowers in front of fire stations. They lit candles. They hung photographs of the missing.


  
Now, at last, there is a permanent memorial to the victims., New York City has unveiled the memorial site to the public at Ground Zero. The memorial consists of two fountain pools surrounded by a bronze band. The bronze is engraved with the names of the 3,000 victims from the attacks at the Twin Towers, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania site.

In addition to the memorial, a museum opening in September of next year will display historical and memorial exhibits surrounding 9/11. One portion of the museum's plans includes a chamber that houses a wall from one of the Twin Towers that survived the attacks.

The tree-covered memorial plaza at Ground Zero opened to the families of the victims for the first time Sunday, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks.


In the exact footprints of the two towers was a stately memorial: two great, weeping waterfalls, surrounded by bronze parapets etched with names of all 9/11 victims

In addition to the memorial, a museum opening in September of next year will display historical andmemorial exhibits surrounding 9/11. One portion of the museum's plans includes a chamber that houses a wall from one of the Twin Towers that survived the attacks