9/11 has become all about New York - with D.C. and the Pentagon nearly forgotten

[triannamaxwell]

9/11 has become all about New York - with D.C. and the Pentagon nearly forgotten

By Marc Fisher, Published: September 2

To see the new 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York City, visitors will need timed-entry tickets; almost all of them for the first week were snapped up well in advance of next Sunday’s opening. To see the Pentagon Memorial,

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[triannamaxwell]

Now to make everyone cry, here are a few oral histories of relatives of those who died in the towers:

[potatoboat]

i saw some of these on pbs and they are gut wrenching

[roseofjuly]

So OT but your icon is fierce

[jeterluva]

Heartbreaking.

[ohkimosabe]

People always forget Boston too. Obviously there wasn't a crash or anything here, but one of the planes left from Logan Airport. :(

[sarahsayssoo]

huh?

[ohkimosabe]

A lot of people from Boston were effected as well since one of the planes left Logan. It's not the same magnitude of course as of those in DC and the Pentagon, but I was just mentioning it.

[serendipity_15]

One of my fellow band members in high school had a dad who was a pilot, he was flying out of Logan that day.

[muppetfromhell]

DC got forgotten about practically while the attacks were going on.

[fishphile]

Truth.

[vanillakokakola]

i legitimately forgot that a plane hit the pentagon.

[jocelyncs]

I was on Capitol Hill the day of the attack, and I wouldn't say that's the case. Remember that at the time, there were reports coming in about the fourth plane headed for DC and rumors of fires on the National Mall and car bombs at the State Department.

Granted, the image of the two skyscrapers burning and the people jumping out simply IS more intense in many ways. The real horror hit me after we were evacuated to a colleague's house and arrived to see that both towers were down.

[baked_goldfish]

I think the Pentagon memorial was very well done, to be honest. And the NYC memorial will be serving a dual purpose of both memorializing everyone from the 3 sites + the prior WTC attack and educating - things that the Pentagon memorial, because of its location, can't do.

[brewsternorth]

Good point in particular about the NY memorial. It'll be the most accessible of the sites to outsiders. And tbh there are quite a few other ix/xi memorials in other parts of the country devoted to people from these localities who died as a result of the attacks.

Do we know what sort of memorial is going to be placed in Shanksville? I know that there was originally an idea for a beautiful grove of trees, one for each person who died, but the idea was screamed about by the right-wing media because the grove happened to be in the shape of a crescent.

[baked_goldfish]

I thought they'd already started construction in Shanksville? And that part of it was already built, so I don't know how much influence the right-wing media will have.

[brewsternorth]

I guess the issue is that the *coverage* has almost uniquely been confined to NYC as far as I can tell, with comparatively little mentioned about Shanksville or the Pentagon. And this New Yorker is getting more than a little tired of it all.

[jeterluva]

tbh I forget about the other planes until I read something about them or hear them mentioned.