Now that you know a little more about the One World Trade Center, here are the things to do when you visit. You could grab a bite to eat, check out the retail outlets, or simply explore the incredible architecture. If you want to know more, I wrote a whole guide to the Oculus , including how it got here and what makes it special. Your experience at the One World Observatory begins at the Global Welcome Center — a video wall that transforms to show different states and countries and welcomes you in multiple languages.
You can see a glimpse of it in the video above. The installation is meant to celebrate the different homelands of each and every visitor. Hear their inspiring stories about the building before you see it for yourself.
The skyscrapers you see today would not be possible without it. As she headed uptown to escape, she put her shoes back on, and they became bloody from her cut and blistered feet. She donated her shoes to the museum. At the time of the attack, he called his wife to let her know about the incident and reassured her that he would safely evacuate.
Robert did not make it out of the tower alive. A year after the attacks his wallet and wedding ring were recovered. Among this unit was David Halderman, who was a firefighter just like his father and brother. His helmet was found crushed on September 12, and given to his brother, Michael, who believes his death was due to the the collapse of the tower and a strike to the head. This I.
On the morning of the attacks, he was working on the 27th floor of the North Tower, along with a wheelchair-bound friend, Edward Beyea. Coworkers who evacuated informed professional emergency responders that the two were awaiting assistance inside. I was sleeping in on September 11, , and was awakened at around am by the sound of fire engine sirens- lots of them.
I looked out of the apartment window, out into the gorgeous Indian summer day, and saw a stream of firetrucks racing downtown. A big plume of thick smoke was visible in the sky as I looked south from 24th street. Judging by its size, I figured it must have been in a nearby neighborhood. The World Trade Center had been attacked and was now gone. Great experience His account was informative and emotional but showed the resilience and determination of the New York people—who are adorable.
We toured the chapel, the plaza and the memorial itself, which is obviously very emotional. John was able to give us the information that we would most definitely had missed if we hadn't taken this tour. Ray our guide gave the day the respect it deserved. I had been an emergency medical technician EMT with the Kensington Volunteer Fire Department in Maryland for five years and had been to many accident scenes and fire grounds, but this was completely different.
The sense of urgency was almost palpable as these workers, many from other states and from different trades, worked together to make the site accessible to the rescue personnel. Many were still hoping to find survivors, but at this point knew it was more of a recovery mission. For all of the work that was going on, the pile was eerily quiet. Hard hats protected us from falling debris and surgical masks helped keep the dust at bay.
The dust was unbelievably fine and got through the masks easily, making them essentially useless. Everything was covered in a layer of that fine gray dust that made it look like we were in a black-and-white movie, except for the different colored hard hats and uniforms the workers and rescue personnel wore.
Visiting the many aid stations where the workers could go to get something to eat or just decompress was very humbling. Experience told me their emotions were too raw to approach them about donating objects to the museum.
Most were exhausted from working so hard and for so long, digging through this huge pile of debris, finding nothing or, even worse, a fallen brother. As a curator, I know the importance of collecting, and I rarely shy away from an opportunity to bring a storied object into the museum's collections. But on that day, it was not my place to ask these guys for anything, but to thank them for their tireless service.
Instead of collecting objects, I used my camera to record the events of that day and donated the images to the museum's Photographic History Collection—a few of which you see here. The museum did eventually collect from many of the firefighters, police officers, rescue workers, and various trades represented in the clean-up from Ground Zero. Objects were collected from the two other sites created that day—the Pentagon, in which a hijacked plane crashed into the building, killing everyone aboard the plane and many on the ground, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the heroic crew and passengers rushed the cockpit to bring the plane down before it could make it to another possible target, thought to be the Capitol in Washington, D.
These collections are among the most extensive in the country and we are honored to be able to preserve these objects for future generations so that we may never forget.
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