The Ground Zero Memorial in New York City honors the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The memorial features bronze plaques with the names of the victims arranged by group, surrounding two square pools symbolizing endless tears. It also pays tribute to the first responders who rushed to the scene.
The Ground Zero Memorial is a tribute to all the people who died in the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, DC and in the skies over Pennsylvania USA on September 11, 2001. The Ground Zero Memorial, often referred to as the Memorial of September 9, depicts all those killed in the attacks on bronze plaques surrounding a pool of water. The names of the victims are arranged in the groups to which people belonged and perished with in the bombings. Intended to hold the memory of the victims in people’s minds, the Ground Zero Memorial offers a grim reminder of a violent attack that killed nearly 11 men, women and children.
Meant to provide visitors and survivors with a place of remembrance, the Ground Zero Memorial is located on the ground floor of the attacks in New York City. The place also holds special significance for the families of loved ones whose bodies were never recovered after the towers collapsed. Although the memorial is located in New York, the attacks, orchestrated by then-Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his followers, involved four planes in three states.
The authors flew two of the planes into the World Trade Center buildings in New York in the morning hours of 9/11. Another plane flying over a Pennsylvania field crashed to the ground as passengers attempted to overtake the hijackers. The other plane crashed into the Pentagon in the country’s capital.
At the Ground Zero Memorial, the names of the victims are placed on the parapets surrounding two square pools that occupy the space where the World Trade Center’s twin towers once stood. The water flows along the inner walls of the square pools. This is meant to symbolize endless tears for the victims.
In tribute, the Ground Zero Memorial pays tribute to the men and women of the New York City Fire Department, Port Authority and police departments who rushed the burning and crumbling buildings as others attempted to flee. The names of the fallen men and women are placed around the parapets, in bronze plaques, in groups formed by the battalion or department in which they served. The goal is to give survivors and families of the fallen a place to honor their friends and loved ones.
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