12 September 2016 - 9/11 anniversary
Activer le mode zenMerrit Kennedy (NPR, 11/09/2016)
The names of each of the nearly 3,000 victims of the Sept. 11 attacks were read at a ceremony at the Sept. 11 memorial plaza, at the World Trade Center site in New York City. This marks the 15th anniversary of the attacks.
Family members came forward to name and honor their relatives who died at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and on Flight 93. The event also commemorated the victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombings.
As WNYC's Stephen Nessen told our Newscast unit, family members often included an anecdote or update as well. "I heard one young man say, 'Dad, I'm starting college this fall.' One woman said 'Not a day goes by that I don't miss you. I want you to know your grandchild was born on your birthday.' "
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Remembering the victims
Elisha Fieldstadt and the Associated Press (NBC News, 11/09/2016)
"It doesn't get easier. The grief never goes away. You don't move forward — it always stays with you," Tom Acquaviva, of Wayne, New Jersey, who lost his son Paul Acquaviva, said at the annual 9/11 memorial service at Ground Zero in New York.
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9/11 memorial
The Editorial Board (The New York Times, 11/09/2016)
Walk onto the plaza in Lower Manhattan and you hear the memorial before you see it — a whooshing through the oak trees. You soon realize it’s not the wind, but water. At the footprint of each tower, north and south, a vast square emptiness is bound by four walls of falling water, the pool below pouring into a smaller central void that flows out of sight. The memorial is black upon black, but the water casts reflections. Sunlight and mist make fragmentary rainbows that flicker as clouds go by.
Tourists are milling about and buying souvenirs, guides are explaining, construction workers on the perimeter are relaxing. Though it is a murder scene, the memorial is not a morbid place. The trees soften it, as does the presence of children who have no memory of that morning, 15 years ago on Sunday.
There is an underground museum nearby, if you want to immerse yourself in that day. But the event is hard to grasp in full if you never saw the towers intact, if you never gazed straight up between the two pinstriped columns and got dizzy at the scale. And if you were not downtown that day, and did not have to flee uptown or across a bridge, did not have your memory seared by the smoke, the dust, the smell, the incomprehension.
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President Obama's speech
Tanya Somanader (The White House, 11/09/2016)
Fifteen years after the attacks on 9/11, President Obama headed to the Pentagon to honor the memory of those we lost and pay tribute to the legacy of love and service that they have left with us.
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- Dana Rose Garfin, How the pain of 9/11 still stays with a generation, 09/09/2016 (The Conversation).
- Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, Arnold M. Howitt, Christine Cole and Joseph W. Pfeifer, Command under attack: What we’ve learned since 9/11 about managing crises, 09/09/2016 (The Conversation).
- Lynne B. Sagalyn, Rebuilding ground zero: How twin mandates of revival and remembrance reshaped Lower Manhattan, 25/08/2016 (The Conversation).
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