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Reserve your seat now for the next event in the 9/11 Today and Tomorrow speakers series. On May 19, counterterrorism expert Bill Braniff of West Point's Combating Terrorism Center will present Understanding the Enemy: Counterterrorism and al Qaeda. All e
Construction on the 9/11 Memorial is continuing to move forward. Granite installation has begun inside the large reflecting pools and the memorial is now completely framed in steel. Its two acre-sized squares set within the original footprints of the
Sharing a story inside a StoryCorps recording booth. (Photo by Tony Rinaldo) Do you have a 9/11 story to share?Since 2006, oral historians Jenny Pachucki and Amy Weinstein of the 9/11 Memorial Museum have been working to collect recordings chronicling the
I'm in a unique position. I see the arrivals of most of the guests for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.They walk by the receiving desk at the lower Manhattan office on their way for construction updates, oral history appointments or consu
Section by section, panels of smooth dark granite is being installed in the north pool of the 9/11 Memorial. Nearly 4,000 of these panels - each weighing about 420 pounds - will fill the memorial pool. The two memorial pools, roughly about an acre in si
They are used to running into burning houses.Now a group of firefighters from Down Under will run from the coast of Los Angeles to the island of Manhattan in support of the nearly 3,000 victims - including "411 first responders" who died on Sept. 11. The
Does memory have a lifespan? If so, does it correspond to the life of a person remembering? These may seem like abstract questions, but they have a very practical reality when planning for a memorial museum – an institution that is responsible for ex
Today marks the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing, an act of domestic terrorism that killed 168 people. A memorial was erected in Oklahoma's capital city in their honor. In late 2009, 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels traveled to
Hundreds of tons of remnant steel from the 2001 World Trade Center disaster has arrived home. That home may not be where you think. According to an Associated Press report by Joann Loviglio, more than two dozen flatbed trucks loaded with 500 tons of
The Alliance for the Arts, which advocates for New York City's cultural institutions, took notice of some newcomers that "attract big audiences." One of those cultural newcomers was the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site located at 20 Vesey St., a few yards from
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