Traveling in honor of September 11th

Pineapple Travel this month features Marking the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11. September 11 marks the tenth anniversary of the day that terrorists killed more than 3,000 people at the World Trade Center in New York City; at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., and in a field near Shanksville, Pa.

In New York, a new 9/11 Memorial will be dedicated on the tenth anniversary. The memorial is located at the site of the former World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, where the 110-story “Twin Towers” were destroyed and more than 2,700 lives were lost. The memorial includes reflecting pools, lined with bronze panels inscribed with the victims’ names, which mark the footprints of the Twin Towers. The Memorial Museum incorporates remnants of the original World Trade Center construction.

The dedication ceremony on September 11 is reserved for the families of victims. The memorial will open to the public on September 12. Visitors must obtain timed passes in advance, and passes for September 12 are already sold out.

The Pentagon Memorial, open since 2008, honors the 184 lives lost at the Pentagon’s western wall. This outdoor memorial includes 184 cantilevered, illuminated benches, each engraved with the name of a victim. The memorial is open daily, there will be an invitation-only ceremony on September 11 for the families of the 9/11 victims.

Another national memorial will be dedicated outside Shanksville during the weekend of September 10-11, with all events open to the public. The memorial marks the site where 40 heroic passengers and crew crashed, thwarting the plan to attack the U.S. Capitol. The memorial includes ponds, groves of trees, the “Field of Honor” and the “Tower of Voices,” where 40 large wind chimes represent the sound of the wind and the heroes’ voices. To visit any of these moving 9/11 memorials, contact us today. ~ This article provided courtesy of Pineapple Travel .

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