There’s a small piece of paper at the new National September 11 Memorial Museum with my name scrawled across the top. Underneath my name, in black ballpoint pen, it says: Abd pain; Diff breathing; Inhalation.
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May 17, 2014
A plastic bag with Andrea Haberman's personal possessions -- her purse, glasses, keys and a checkbook -- had been tucked away in a drawer in her father's Wisconsin home since 2004.
May 17, 2014
The oldest of Joseph Paolillo's three sons was 3 ½ and the other two were not yet born when his brother, John, was killed in the north tower on Sept. 11.
May 17, 2014
The 9/11 memorial, more formally known as The National September 11 Memorial, no longer requires passes in order to gain admittance. The memorial is completely open to the public, with no more lines or reservations needing to be made.
May 15, 2014
Tony Award-winning actress LaChanze Sapp-Gooding, who was called in at the last minute to perform, had a very personal connection to 9/11. More.
May 14, 2014
The video footage of the moment the second plane hits the World Trade Center can still shock, even though we've seen it so many times.
May 14, 2014
Tucked inside the National September 11 Memorial Museum is a video recording booth. Here, the museum, which opens next week, hopes to gather the voices of visitors, reflecting on how the terrorist attacks affected their lives, and how the world has changed since that day.
May 14, 2014
At 7am on Saturday morning, May 10, I watched one of the tiniest, quietest, least gregarious and yet most poignant processions I've ever seen, at Ground Zero, New York.
May 14, 2014
After a decade marked by deep grief, partisan rancor, war, financial boondoggles and inundation from Hurricane Sandy, the National September 11 Memorial Museum at ground zero is finally opening ceremonially on Thursday, with President Obama present, and officially to the public next Wednesday.
May 13, 2014
9-11 doesn't need a year date, 2001. 9-11 is one of those dates -- at least in the American mind -- that lives in a category named "inconceivable." It's a date when the twin towers of American mythology -- invincibility and transparency -- came crashing down.
May 13, 2014
Volunteers with Maine's Red Cross chapter will be heading to New York to provide mental health support for families viewing the new 9/11 Memorial Museum.
May 12, 2014
Michael Bloomberg was an unlikely savior of the museum that honors the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks - a project stalled for years in a morass of debate among family members, urban planners and politicians.
May 12, 2014
Muslim advocates and scholars are stepping up pressure on the Sept. 11 museum to edit or at least let more scholars see a documentary movie exhibit about al-Qaida before the museum's opening this month.
May 12, 2014
Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son was killed at the World Trade Center, is outraged that the unidentified remains of 9/11 victims have been transferred to a repository 70 feet underground in the same building as the National September 11 Memorial Museum.
May 7, 2014
The number of NYPD officers who fatally succumbed from 9/11-related illnesses has now surpassed the number of officers killed in the attacks, according to the New York State Police Officers' Memorial in Albany.
May 2, 2014
President Obama and the First Lady will attend the dedication of the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York on May 15, a White House official said.
April 30, 2014
A museum dedicated to the nearly 3,000 people who died in the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington on Wednesday unveiled online registries where survivors, rescue workers and witnesses can share their memories.
April 28, 2014
Al Qaeda recruit, Saajid Badat, 35, testified at the trial of British hate preacher Abu Hamza, who faces life behind bars if convicted on 11 kidnapping and terror charges after being extradited to the United States.
April 28, 2014
A police cadet who died helping World Trade Center victims on 9/11 was honored Monday at a Queens street renaming -13 years after being accused of involvement in the attacks.
April 28, 2014
Brookfield Office Properties plans to reclaim a private viewing room for family of September 11 victims and use it for commercial space.
