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9/11 memorials at the World Trade Center, Shanksville, Pa. On the 10th anniversary of the attacks, memorials in two cities honor the victims.
Black concrete makes up the memorial plaza, designed to evoke an airplane wing, at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. The memorial honors the 40 people who died after regaining control of their hijacked plane and crashing it into a field in Pennsylvania, likely sparing an attack on the U.S. Capitol building or White House.
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A structure at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. The concrete walls of the structure are embossed with the texture of gum trees, 40 of which are planted, one for each victim.
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Benches along the memorial plaza at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa.
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Work continues on the memorial plaza at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. The white wall is built on the angle of the plane’s descent, with the point of impact represented by a rock at the end of the mown path.
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Wildflowers surround the memorial plaza at the Flight 93 National Memorial.
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A view of the memorial plaza showing three of the 40 sweet gum trees at the Flight 93 National Memorial.
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Another view of some of the sweet gum trees — one for each victim — at the Flight 93 National Memorial.
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American flags are left as tributes on a fence overlooking the Flight 93 National Memorial.
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Memorial footprints of the Twin Towers are seen adjacent to One World Trade Center, the tall building on the far right. Upon completion, One World Trade Center will be New York's tallest skyscraper, topping out at a symbolic 1,776 feet -- a tribute to the year the United States signed the Declaration of Independence -- with 3 million square feet of office space.
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A model inside 7 World Trade Center shows the plans for the new World Trade Center as work continues in New York. The memorial is scheduled to be dedicated on September 11, 2011, the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
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A general view shows the south pool waterfall and the under construction One World Trade Center tower, in the rear, as work continues on the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center site in New York.
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The National September 11 Memorial and Museum is seen in the background, as workers put final touches on the World Trade Center Memorial.
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A welder works below ground level as work continues on the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center site in New York.
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People wait for a blessing of the World Trade Center cross before it was moved into its permanent home at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York. The cross is an intersecting steel beam discovered in the World Trade Center rubble, which served as symbol of spiritual recovery in the aftermath of 9/11.
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World Trade Center construction workers hold hands during a prayer at a ceremony for the September 11 cross in New York. After the ceremony, the cross was installed at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. It was discovered upright in the ruins of ground zero following the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
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The September 11 cross is lowered by crane into a subterranean section of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.
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The memorial plaza, with two waterfalls representing the former location of the Twin Towers, is seen through a window in the One World Trade Center tower, which is under construction as work continues on the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.
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Workers pressure-clean inside the north pool waterfall as work continues on the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center site.
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The south pool waterfall is tested as work continues on the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.
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The National September 11 Memorial and Museum is seen in the background as water flows in the south pool of the World Trade Center Memorial.
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A detail of the north pool at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York. Bronze panels that ring the two pools bear the names of the 9/11 victims, as well as those who died during the 1993 World Trade Center attack.
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Critic Phil Kennicott writes of the memorial: “One corner of New York has Niagara; the city now has its own, domesticated version of watery abyss.”
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