9/11: a nation remembers: work is under way on three memorials to America's darkest day.On the morning of September 11, 2001, Ari Garin of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. didn't know why his teacher was crying. He soon found out. Like people everywhere, Ari and his classmates Classmates can refer to either:
Nineteen Middle Eastern terrorists had hijacked four passenger planes. They flew two planes into the Twin Towers of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's World Trade Center, not far from Ari's school. Both towers collapsed. Terrorists crashed a third plane into the Pentagon, the United States military headquarters in Arlington County, Virginia Arlington County is an urban county of about 203,000 residents in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the U.S., directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. [1] . The fourth plane was apparently headed for the White House or the Capitol in Washington, D.C. When passengers tried to stop the hijackers, that plane crashed into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania Somerset County is a county located in the state of Pennsylvania. As of 2000, the population was 80,023. Somerset County was created on April 17, 1795 from part of Bedford County and named for Somerset, United Kingdom. Its county seat is Somerset6. , killing everyone aboard. The 9/11 attacks were among the deadliest in U.S. history. Nearly 3,000 people were killed. "I was angry," says Ari, now 13. "I thought, 'Why would someone do this to America?'" "Our dad said, 'This is something you'll remember for the rest of your lives,'" says Ari's brother, Bobby, now 16. Today, five years later, three memorials to the victims of the terror attacks are under construction. At the World Trade Center site, known as Ground Zero, the memorial will feature two large reflecting pools where the towers stood. The victims' names will be engraved en·grave tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. 2. in the surrounding walls. This memorial is due to open on September 11, 2009. The new World Trade Center complex will include the 1,776-foot-tall Freedom Tower. It is scheduled to open in 2011. The Pentagon Memorial, honoring the 184 people who died there, is to be completed this fall. The Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania will feature a large circle of red maple red maple see acerrubrum. trees around the site where 40 people died. It is scheduled to open to the public in 2011. "It's a really good idea to keep people remembering," says Ari. "When I'm old, it's one of the things I'm going to remember. It's going to be one of the big things." |
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