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Tributes to 9/11/01 What you are about to view are materials that were created over the past 10 years to commemorate 9/11. In the aftermath of the attacks,
Tributes to 9/11/01 What you are about to view are materials
that were created over the past 10 years to commemorate 9/11. In
the aftermath of the attacks, many individuals and communities in
our country came together and leaned on each other for support.
Many even produced memorials as a part of the grieving, healing,
recovery, and rebuilding process.
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Please take your time viewing each of the memorials on this
slideshow and reading the captions that accompany them.
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The Dear Hero Collection Not long after the terrorist attacks
on September 11, 2001, firehouses and police stations throughout
NYC began receiving an abundance of letters with heartfelt
messages, cards, flags, murals, quilts addressed to the Heroes at
Ground Zero. These letters were mostly from children who witnessed
the attacks on TV or in their classrooms and wanted to show their
support and gratitude. Tanya Hoggard (pictured right), learned
about the correspondence and decided to collect and safeguard these
expressions. Little did she know she would soon collect 3 tons
(around 6,000 lbs) of correspondence! Hoggard devoted 8 years to
documenting her mission and has donated the collection to the 9/11
Memorial Museum.
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Dear Hero continued
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Lady Liberty In the weeks and months following the attacks, a
replica of the Statue of Liberty appeared outside a NYC firehouse,
Engine 54/Ladder 4/Battalion 9, on 8 th Avenue and 48 th Street. To
this day, no one knows how the fiberglass replica arrived there,
but before long it inspired an ongoing ornamentation with personal
messages and heartfelt tributes contributed by the general public.
Today this Lady Liberty stands covered from head to toe with
uniform patches, miniature rosary beads, condolence notes, souvenir
postcards, angel figurines and other mementos left by mourners and
passersby. It now rests at the 9/11 Memorial Museum in memory of
the firefighters of Engine 54/Ladder 4/Battalion 9 and the 9 men
killed at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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The United Airlines Quilt A group of four United Airlines
flight attendants decided to create a quilt as a special tribute to
the flight attendants, pilots and ground crew personnel killed
aboard Flight 175 when it was flown into the South Tower. They
created a quilt made up of pieces of uniforms like those worn on
the flight. The four flight attendants collected uniforms from
retired United Airlines employees and co-workers across the
country. After completing the quilt, they reached out to families
of the co-workers who died aboard the flight, and created special
messages to honor each. The quilt hung in Bostons Logan Airport,
the origin of Flight 175, where it can be seen by United Airlines
personnel. Eventually, they donated the quilt to the 9/11 Memorial
Museum.
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The National 9/11 Flag When the World Trade Center Towers
collapsed, a 30- foot American flag that was hanging at a nearby
construction site was destroyed by falling debris. Its remains were
stored in a shed, untouched for about 7 years. In 2008, the New
York Says Thank You Foundation, which organizes volunteer projects
for communities in need across the nation, brought the flag to
Greenburg, Kansas which had been recently destroyed by a tornado.
As hundreds of New York Says Thank You volunteers helped to rebuild
a pavilion in Greensburg, residents of Greenburg joined together to
thank the NY volunteers by reconstructing the tattered flag. To do
so, they used flags recovered from the sites affected by the
tornado. The flag, now known as the National 9/11 Flag, represents
shared stories of tragedy, triumph and the power of the human
spirit.
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The National September 11 th Memorial Official Dedication
Ceremony: Sunday, September 11, 2011 Official Opening to the
Public: Monday, September 12, 2011 The National September 11
Memorial is a tribute to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the
terror attacks of September 11, 2001. The site also commemorates
the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing back in
February 1993. The twin reflecting pools that you see in the
picture sit where the Twin Towers once stood. They are the largest
manmade waterfalls in North America as they each measure nearly an
acre in size! The names of every person who died in the 2001 and
1993 attacks are inscribed into perimeters of the Memorial pools.
It is a powerful reminder of the largest loss of life resulting
from a foreign attack on American soil and the greatest single loss
of rescue personnel in American history.
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I hope you enjoyed this tribute. If you are interested in
learning more about The National 9/11 Memorial you can visit:
http://timeline.national911memorial.org/#/Explore/2
http://www.history.com/interactives/9-11-maps#http://www.history.com/interactives/9-11-maps#.
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Citations Images and Information: www.9-11memorial.org
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