9/11 Memorial Museum NEVER FORGET

The underground structure built at ground zero honors those who perished & provides audio tapes & tangible artifacts of the terrorist attack. There are timed entrance tickets ($25/adult.)  Upon entering, everyone goes through screening (a typical required procedure) since this notorious date which united our nation in tragedy  It is an impregnable date.   People will forever recall where they were when they first learned our nation was under attack.  It's also a timeline for those not able to recall 1st hand the events of this seismic date.  For everyone, the 9/11 Memorial Museum will serve as a solemn, signficant reminder to "Never Forget."  The museum is below ground.   Immediately you are confronted with the last remaining column removed in a dignified ceremony on 5/30/02.  There are emotionally charged symbols, writings & objects on this pillar placed there by recovery workers & victim's families.  News reports first mistook the 1st plane striking the North Tower as a tragic accident.  When the 2nd plane struck the South Tower the stunned comprehension of this heinous attack was apparent.  You'll hear poignant recordings of those trapped to their loved ones.  There are molten, crumpled structures that remained.  You'll see photos of those whose lives were destroyed.  And you'll pass a crypt bearing human remains that will never be identified.  The artifacts recovered are stupefying.  Iconic images from that day & the days that followed are imbedded throughout.  "What is going to happen next?"  There were heroic rescuers "going up to their deaths. And I was walking down to live." (evacuee of N. Tower)  The 9/11 Memorial Museum respectively serves as an eternal witness.  Many innocent victims lept to their deaths from the incineration imploding both Towers.  "You felt compelled to watch out of respect to them.  They were ending their life without a choice and to turn away from them would have been wrong."  (eye witness on 9/11)