140811 World Trade Center Memorial

One World Trade Center - the tallest building now in the western hemisphere rises above the site of the former North and South Towers of the World Trade Center.

Closer view of the top of One World Trade Center

A view of the memorial site of the World Trade Centers, from the 31st floor of the Hilton Millineum. Ther bottom of One WTC is the building on the right, with the green canopy in the front. The skeleton of the new transportation center is rising in the front of the pciture.

Closer view of the North Tower site and a memorial pool over the footprint of the tower.

Wings of the transportation center.

Two men hard at work assembling wings of the transportation center to its central core.

View of the Hudson River behind the World Trade Center.

Welders at work assembling infrastructure of the transportation center.

One World Trade Center rising in the cloudy NYC sky amidst other smaller skyscrapers.

Ferry cross the Hudson...

A sobering view of tghe World Trade Center Memorial Park from the Hilton Millineum.

One World Trade Center framed by trees from the park and neighboring buildings.

South Tower pool with names of those who perished, etched in stone surrounding the pool.

In the center of the South Tower pool, a deep, black abyss.

Deeper into the innter pool, feeling of utter helplessness as you sense there's no bottom, just an emptyness.

A man stares into the pool - frustration, anger, deep sadness, helplessness - even a bit defiant, just as the US flag protrudes out from someone's name - equally defiant.

Sadly, names etched into perpetuaty...

Water pours endliessly into the pool - as individual streams.

If you look more closely - there are individual drops flowing over the sides - each droplet a lost human soul.

Denise looking through the Memorial Guide

National 9/11 Memorial Museum on the right.

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