Today marks the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack that took the lives of 2,996 innocent people. The nation will once again pause to commemorate the tragic and terror attack that took place on September 11, 2001. In addition, new changes will be made for this years' 9/11 anniversary.
The National September 11 Museum will now be open to the public. The museum owns graphic photos from the attack in 2001 including artefacts. However, the memorial plaza will only be open by 6pm as family members of the victims will gather for the reading of names.
Another 9/11 shrine is also set to be open to the public. The Family Room, which contained the most private of possessions of the victims, will now be open for the first time in an exhibition at the New York State Museum located in Albany.
The displays shown at the Family Room are more on the personal side whereas each display is a communion between those whose lives were taken and the people they left behind. The decision to open the Family Room to the public was not however an easy one to make especially for the family of the victims.
The changes done for both the National Museum in New York and the Family Room in Albany have had a great effect on the family of the victims. For some it obscures the real meaning of the commemoration of such tragedy while for some it becomes part of the healing process.
"I want to see it bustling. I want to see more housing down there; I want to see it alive and bursting with businesses," stated Debra Burlingame, the sister of Charles Burlingame, the pilot of the plane that had crashed into the Pentagon.
The changes in the National September 11 Museum in New York to the Family Room in Albany may be a good start for healing for some. Yet, the mourning never ends for the families of the victims.
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