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The National September 11 Memorial & Museum (also known as the 9/11 Memorial & Museum) is a memorial and museum that are part of the World Trade Center complex, in New York City, created for remembering the September 11, 2001, attacks, which killed 2,977 people, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six. [4]
The world's largest bronze sculpture of modern times stood between the Twin Towers on the Austin J. Tobin Plaza of the World Trade Center in New York City from 1972 until the September 11 attacks. The work, weighing more than 20 tons, was the only remaining work of art to be recovered largely intact from the ruins of the collapsed Twin Towers.
The project was originally going to be named Towers of Light, but the victims' families felt that the name emphasized the buildings destroyed instead of the people killed. [ 17 ] A permanent fixture of the Tribute in Light was at one point intended to be installed on the roof of One World Trade Center , [ 18 ] [ 19 ] but it was not included in ...
The original World Trade Center complex. At the time of their completion the "Twin Towers"—the original 1 World Trade Center (the North Tower), at 1,368 ft (417 m), and 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower)—were the tallest buildings in the world.
The twin towers represented America's strength for decades. Now, a new tower stands in their place, proving America's resilience in the face of tragedy. One World Trade Center: 15 years of ...
Fires from the crashes at the Twin Towers, made worse by the planes’ ignited jet fuel, badly damaged the buildings’ steel. At 9:59am, after burning for 56 minutes, the South Tower collapsed. ...
Spectators look up as the World Trade Center goes up in flames September 11, 2001 in New York City after two airplanes slammed into the twin towers in an alleged terrorist attack.
The fountain was destroyed with the rest of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks. After assessing the destruction of the memorial, along with the rest of the World Trade Center complex, only a single fragment of the inscribed granite marked "John D", from the name of John DiGiovanni, was found intact at Ground Zero.