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My Experience At The 9/11 Museum

"No day shall erase you from the memory of time"

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My Experience At The 9/11 Museum
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Last Summer, I had the opportunity to go to the 9/11 museum in New York. While I was there, I tried to soak up everything that was around me like a sponge. There was an immediate feeling of darkness and sadness, and it only got worse the longer I was there. This is my personal experience at the 9/11 museum with pictures. Unfortunately, some of the pictures that I wanted to put on here kept coming out sideways and I didn't know how to fix them.


At the beginning of the museum, the first thing you see are tall separate blocks with pictures of different continents. On each block there are quotes from people describing where they were on that tragic day. In the background, there are different male and female voices saying the quotes out loud. There was one place that had a clothing rack still covered in dirt and dust from when the towers collapsed.

All around me there were parts of the towers everywhere. There were steps and even one of the street signs. It was almost like every part of the tower was dissected and torn apart and described with a picture and what it was used for. There were also things that you were not allowed to photograph. In one room, there were pictures of every single person that died. It was so overwhelming seeing people of all ages and races I wanted to break down crying. I knew beforehand how tragic and horrific 9/11 was but to see it for my own eyes 14 years later was definitely life changing.


In one part of the museum, they have one of the actual fire trucks. The firetruck honestly left me speechless. I had watched a documentary about the firefighters during 9/11 and I know that they risked their lives trying to save everyone and some of them did lose their lives. The museum is so big you could stay there all day but I wouldn't recommend it. I can't even imagine how hard it is for the families to go and see the museum. I bet a majority of them haven't. I observed other people's reactions. A lot of people had their hands covering their mouth because they were speechless. Once in awhile I would hear someone gasp, and then the rest of the time people were paying their respects and were completely silent.


There was one quote in particular that really stood out to me. It was on one of the walls in the museum. "No day shall erase you from the memory of time." 9/11 will never be erased or forgotten about. I encourage anyone who lives or visits New York to take a tour of the museum asap.


For the first time ever, kids who weren't even born during 9/11 are now going into high school and will have the chance to learn and understand everything about the day that changed America forever. This information will be passed on from generation to generation and 9/11 will forever stay in the "memory of time".

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