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120 Liberty Street
I went on a field trip to the World Trade Center Tribute Center at 120 Liberty Street the other day. We went on a walking tour around ground zero and an audio tour with sixteen personal stories of people who experienced the September 11th attacks in some way.
I honestly don’t understand how people can work there. Being there for a few hours alone was too intense for me. The people that work there, like John Henderson – who gave us our tour – spend whole days surrounded by reminders of the tragedy. They have a twisted I-beam from one of the towers, a charred piece of an airplane window, and – perhaps most moving – a wall reproducing the many flyers people put up searching for loved ones following 9/11.
I honestly don’t understand how people can work there. Being there for a few hours alone was too intense for me. The people that work there, like John Henderson – who gave us our tour – spend whole days surrounded by reminders of the tragedy. They have a twisted I-beam from one of the towers, a charred piece of an airplane window, and – perhaps most moving – a wall reproducing the many flyers people put up searching for loved ones following 9/11.
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