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Water pours through the north memorial pool at Ground Zero. On Sept. 12, 2011, when the public is allowed to step onto the World Trade Center site for the first time in 10 years, the approach will be more pedestrian than poignant. Visitors will pass through police screening gates and walk past barriers designed to prevent bombs from tearing through the site again. But this sobering reintroduction to the World Trade Center site is perhaps a fitting transition from the past decade—when the public's last direct experience of the site was a morning of terror—to a new era. As visitors...

I just found out today there is a 9/11 Monument in NJ that was a gift from the Russians. Has anyone in NY or NJ been to this? This sure didn't get a lot of coverage. http://www.911monument.com/index.html

JERUSALEM – A memorial to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks was unveiled in the Arazim park outside of Jerusalem. Commissioned and built by the Jewish National Fund-USA, the memorial commemorates the victims of radical Islam and features a central sculpture in the shape of a waving American flag transformed into a memorial flame. A small piece of wreckage from the World Trade Center resides in a compartment in the granite base. The sculpture is surrounded by a circular, crater-like plaza and reflection area tiled in stone. The Jerusalem monument is one of the first major international memorials to...

A bright blue sky could not hide the gray shadows of pain that marked the eyes of the families of the victims of the "9/11" terrorist attack that found themselves in Arazim Park in Jerusalem on Thursday. They had gathered together with international dignitaries and Israeli leaders to dedicate a new monument to the their loved ones, who lost their lives in the senseless 2001 attack on America by the Al Qaeda terrorist organization...

HARTFORD, Conn. – A memorial to honor a Sept. 11 victim from a small northwestern Connecticut town has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from his father's insistence it say his son was murdered by "Muslim terrorists." Town officials in Kent are balking, saying it would be inappropriate to single out a religious group in a project on town property and paid for with taxpayers' money. The memorial plaque to be erected outside the town hall is on indefinite hold. Peter Gadiel is criticizing town leaders for being too politically correct, and says he's frustrated about what he calls...

Mascanomet High School senior Olivia O'Malley wants to make sure nobody ever forgets what happened on September 11, 2001. Armed with a box of American flags, she began her mission on Thursday to plant a flag for each person who lost their life 8 years ago. "We can never forget it started as an ordinary day." List: Mass. 911 Victims Olivia has been planting flags on the lawn at Mascanomet High School each year as a reminder. She says her mission began three years ago when, on the 5th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, there was no announcement made at...

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Please join us in Studio City to commemorate those lost on September 11, 2001. Let us never forget! SE corner of Ventura Blvd at Laurel Canyon Blvd in front of First Republic Bank. 6:30 pm - Parking in the lot or behind CVS. If you park in lot, please make a purchase at either Coffee Bean & Tea, or the yogurt shop. We have flags and candles, but feel free to bring yours. Dinner to follow.

Michael Nagle for The New York Times Wreckage from 9/11, stored at Kennedy Airport, is being granted to groups around the country. When Jeff Cox, a 15-year-old candidate for the rank of Eagle Scout in Windermere, Fla., approached the small town’s mayor with park improvement ideas to help earn a badge, the mayor informed him that those projects were already covered. “He came back and said, ‘Would the town like a memorial if I can get World Trade Center steel?’ ” Mayor Gary Bruhn said. “I was stunned. I said, ‘Son, the town would be elated to have something...

It's a tough world out there, an ugly world... even brutal at times. Things happen -- wars, famine, storms, terror, alphabet soup illnesses ala H1N1, society-destroying debt, political systems in need of rehabilitation. We're buffeted on the right and pummeled on the left and too often take it on the chin. Only occasionally does the world community engage cooperatively to aid or ameliorate the effects of these "bad things". And even less frequent are enduring beaux gestes -- beautiful, noble gestures, often in futile causes. Gestures that are offered without solicitation to honor those persons, those peoples impacted by said...

NEW YORK — It became a makeshift memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. Now a massive steel column has been returned to ground zero as a symbol of rebirth.

Removed from the rubble of the World Trade Center site and maintained in a hangar at Kennedy Airport, this beam is being returned to Ground Zero today to take its' honored place at the site of the 9/11 Museum. It is covered with memorials honoring some of those who perished in the worst terrorist attack ever to occur on United States soil...

One of the more controversial of all the 9/11 memorials is an artwork originally entitled "Tear Of Grief", a forty-foot stainless steel teardrop suspended within a 100-foot-tall, 175-ton, bronze-clad tower that is now officially entitled "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism". This extraordinary work is a gift to the United States from the people of Russia and from its creator, renowned sculptor Zurab Tsereteli. Mr. Tsereteli first envisioned the image of the "Tear Of Grief" on September

Pictures and description of the New Jersey monument erected by the Russians in honor of the victims of 9/11.

Russian gift to the US http://www.snopes.com/rumors/tributes/teardrop.asp

It’s a small gesture, but gestures matter at the hallowed grave site of so many murdered innocent Americans. Barack Obama flings a memorial rose at Ground Zero like he’s a kid tossing pennies into a fountain at the shopping mall — or a spectator tossing flowers at a bullfight. He doesn’t know what he’s doing. (Clueless NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg copies him.) By contrast, John McCain and his wife kneel and gently, somberly, place their roses down at the foot of the 9/11 tribute. Tons of you e-mailed me about this. Here’s the vid for the rest of you who...

First taken, last remembered — let us never forget their bravery. July 17, 2008 - by

On Friday, just outside of Dallas/Ft Worth International Airport, the first national memorial to 9/11 heroes was dedicated. Shirley Hall, who is a Flight Attendant and the Vice President of the 9/11 Flight Crew Memorial Foundation, explained the memorial sculpture's symbolism during the memorial's July 4, 2008, dedication ceremony: As volunteers on this project, we have each spent time describing this statue in our attempts to raise funds to turn Valerie’s dream into a reality. From Bryce Cameron Liston’s original interpretation to the final magnificent piece of art you see here today, each of us has shared our ideas on...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2007 – On a day as clear and sunny as the fateful one six years before, tourists and local citizens came to the Pentagon today to pay homage and honor those who lost their lives when a terrorist-controlled airliner crashed into the building Sept. 11, 2001. In hushed voices or with respectful silence, hundreds of people came to the U.S. military’s headquarters to see the crash site of American Airlines Flight 77 that left 184 people dead and a country grief-stricken. Spectators filed by the side of the building draped with a gigantic American flag in...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2007 – When it is completed in about a year from now, the Pentagon Memorial will commemorate the sacrifice of not only the 184 victims who died here, but also those who perished at the other Sept. 11, 2001, attack sites in New York City and Pennsylvania, Deputy Secretary Gordon R. England said here today. Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England speaks at a ceremony held at the Pentagon Memorial site, Sept. 7, 2007, in honor of those who lost their lives in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack against the Pentagon. Defense Dept. photo by...

It's not your typical boy scout project, but then again, 15-year-old Joey Ricketts is not your typical boy scout. Joey has spent the better part of his life in the Scouts, and when it came time for his eagle scout project... Joey Ricketts, Boy Scout: "I know that a lot of people have done a lot for the World Trade Center and I know the Pentagon is from our state and so I thought it would be nice to do a monument to the Pentagon." But this is not just a project to Joey, it's something more personal. Joey's dad...

A tear for WTC victims falls from distant Russia Memorial lands, in sections, at new Bayonne Harbor home Tuesday, August 23, 2005 BY RONALD LEIR JERSEY JOURNAL Loaded on five flatbed trailers and led by a police escort, giant sections of the Teardrop memorial to those killed in the World Trade Center attacks in 1993 and 2001 were transported yesterday to the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor. There, the 100-foot-high, 170-ton monument will be assembled for a dedication planned for September 2006. Next month, Bayonne will hold a ceremony, tentatively scheduled for Sept. 16, to unveil a commemorative stone engraving near...

Here are 20+ videos and tributes to pass along to many people so that the people that think terrorism is over rated can be reminded of what it has done here in America.