9/11: 10 YEARS OF TRAGEDY

      Ten years down the line, and the former site is now dedicated to the National September 11th Memorial and Museum that features two enormous waterfalls and reflecting pools, each about an acre in size, set within the footprints of the twin towers. According to the 9/11 Memorial official site, the nearly 3,000 names of the men, women, and children killed in the attack of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center are inscribed in bronze on parapets surrounding the “twin Memorial pools.”.

      The original World Trade Center was a complex with seven buildings featuring landmark twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The complex opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks. The site is being rebuilt with five new skyscrapers and a memorial to the casualties of the attacks. As of September 2011,only one skyscraper has been completed with four more expected to be completed before 2020. A sixth tower is still awaiting confirmation to be built. At the time of their completion, the original 1 and 2 World Trade Center were the tallest buildings in the world, surpassing the Empire State Building, also in Manhattan.

      The World Trade Center was an iconic structure and has been featured in numerous films as well as appearing in many television shows, cartoons, comic books, video games and music videos. After 10 years of this tragedy we’re still feeling the loss and pain as if it just happened today.