To mark the Museum’s annual commemoration of the end of the nine-month rescue and recovery period at Ground Zero, last week the Museum welcomed NYPD Chief Terri Tobin, Baptist minister Reverend Bill Minson, Vicki Arbitrio of the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY), and Dr. Benjamin Luft from Stony Brook’s WTC Monitoring and Treatment Program to the latest program in our digital conversation series When the World Changes.
In conversation with Clifford Chanin, executive vice president and deputy director for museum programs, the program participants shared their personal recollections of 9/11 and its aftermath and discussed the devastating health issues affecting the rescue and recovery community nearly 20 years after the attacks.
In the clips below, the participants reflect on the heroism displayed by first responders on 9/11 and what these displays meant to them.