Tom Houston spent a year working on this presentation in the PARC PATS Room as a way to memorialize the tragedy of 9/11/2001

1. “We Remember”
By Tom Houston

2. The National 911 Memorial is
located in Lower Manhattan, a part
of New York City.

3. Still Standing PROUD
The National 911 Memorial is located
where the World Trade Center once
stood.

4. The Memorial has 2 reflecting
pools

5. Salute at 911 Memorial
The names of every person who died in the
2001 and 1993 terrorist attacks are inscribed
into bronze panels surrounding the pools

6. The names of all these people who died as a
result of the terrorist attacks are included on the
bronze panels: the people at the two towers of
the World Trade Center, the people on the 4
airplanes that crashed, the people at the
Pentagon, and the first responders.

7. Visitors can make rubbings
of names to take home
with them.

8. At night, a light shines
up through the names.

9. The two reflecting
pools feature the
largest manmade
waterfalls in North
America

10. A “Callery Pear” tree survived the 911
devastation. It was removed, nursed back
to health, and re-planted near the
memorial. It is known as the “survivor
tree”.

11. President Barack Obama attended a memorial
service at the National 911 Memorial on Sept.
11, 2011, along with family members of the
911 victims. The memorial opened to the
public on Sept. 12, 2011

12. The National September 11
Museum is under construction next
to the memorial. This is what the
outside will look like.

13. Two trident-shaped columns were
salvaged from the original World
Trade center. They are incorporated
into the atrium of the new
museum.

14. The “ Last Column” was placed in the lowest level
of the museum, and the museum was built
around it. The “Last Column” was the final steel
beam to be removed from the World Trade Center
site. It is covered with inscriptions, photos, and
mementos placed there by family members and
recovery workers.

15. A new skyscraper is also being built on
the former World Trade Center site. The
name of the skyscraper is: One World
Trade Center. (It was formerly known as
Freedom Tower.)

16. The concrete base will have no
windows and is strong enough to
withstand a truck bomb.

17. The first of three 25-ton steel
columns was erected in Dec.
2006.

18. This is how the
building under
construction looked
on July 31, 2011

19. This picture shows how close all 3 sites are
each other: the National 911 Memorial in the
foreground, with the Museum and the new
One World Trade Center, under construction,
in the background.

20. When complete, One
World Trade Center will
have a radio antenna
mast on top. Counting
the radio antenna mast,
the building will be 1776
feet tall. (1776 is
symbolic-it is the year of
American Independence.)

21. The building will have 105
stories. The building will be
completed in 2013. It will be
the tallest building in North
America (when you count in
the height of the antenna
mast).

22. Above the mast, an
intense beam of
light will be lit at
night and will be
visible over 1,000
feet in the air above
the tower.

23. I am proud of my country!
Tom Houston