September 11 Memorial Museum opens

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May 16, 2014
Ernesto McConnell
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For the opening of the September 11 Memorial Museum on Thursday, families of those lost, Governors, both past and present and President Barack Obama were in attendance. During the memorial dedication, President Obama stated “It is an honor for us to join in your memories, to recall and to reflect, and above all to reaffirm the true spirit of 9/11: love, compassion, sacrifice and to enshrine it forever in the heart of our nation.” The memorial remembers the lives lost in the World Trade Center attacks, as well as those lost when a hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon and another in a field in Pennsylvania. The memorial holds nearly 12,500 objects, as well as eyewitness accounts, and over 500 hours of footage. The museum will be open to the public May 21, 2014. “Here we tell their story so that generations yet unborn will never forget,” Obama said. “Of coworkers who led others to safety, of passengers who stormed the cockpit, our men and women in uniform who rushed into an inferno, our first responders who charged up those stairs, a generation of service members, our 9/11 generation who have served with honor in more than a decade of war.”

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