It paid tribute to those that were lost that day and brought more dignity to the families of the dead.
At some point there needs to be a competed circle of families and those that fought in the Afghanistan conflict and lost members of their family need to be included in a ceremony. Since this is an international place and international citizens were lost, it would be appropriate for family members of NATO and other countries that lost soldiers during that war be included. It should be a place of recognition of the extent such impoverishment and perversion of culture and religion results in heinous acts against good people of all nations. I know the 911 families and those working on the Memorial and the tower are up to the challenge.
Rather than an alphabetical listing (click title to entry - thank you) or purely random collection, the names will be arranged in what organizers described as "meaningful adjacencies" at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
"They died as friends and co-workers and will be remembered together as friends and co-workers," Joe Daniels, the president of the memorial, said in a statement on Thursday.
"They died as brothers and will be remembered as brothers -- or as sisters, mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters. The arrangement of the names, forever etched in bronze, expresses the bonds that could not be broken by the murderous attacks of that day," Daniels said.
Tickets to enter the memorial, which are free, can be reserved online starting this summer. The site opens to families of the victims on the tenth anniversary of the attacks and to the general public on September 12....
