For the staff of the National September 11 Memorial Museum, finding the answer took nearly two years. They explored the question from every angle. Perhaps the starting point for visitors should be the 1993 bombing at the Twin Towers. Or maybe it was the construction of the two buildings in the late 1960s. Or did they need to go all the way back to the Crusades?

Nothing about the National September 11 Memorial Museum has been easy. Its location, its financing and its exhibitions have all been the subject of rancorous controversy and relentless negotiations.

Now, with just weeks to go before its formal opening on May 21, the museum, beneath the World Trade Center plaza, has another potential political and emotional minefield to cross: the opening ceremony. More.

The New Canaan-based Voices of September 11th and the Rutgers University School of Social Work will host the symposium "Promoting Resiliency in Communities Impacted by Trauma: Identification and Treatment of Long Term Needs" Friday, Jan. 17. The symposium will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Rutgers University's Trayes Hall, Douglass Campus Center, 100 George St., New Brunswick, N.J.

Voices is an organization that helps families and communities heal after tragedy. The organization was founded by Mary and Frank Fetchet soon after the attacks that took place on September 11, 2001. Mary and Frank lost their 24-year-old son Brad in tower 2 that day.

My beautiful wing girl for the event was Miss America 2013 Mallory Hagan. I was a great night of cocktails, dinner, and remembrance emceed by Joan Lunden. More.

Hillary Clinton reconnected with relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks at the first of two events where she was honored in New York City on Wednesday night.

Lawyers for families suing over the deadly 2009 crash of a plane into a house near Buffalo have won access to an internal safety report that the flight's operators had fought to keep private. Stamford resident and 9/11 widow Beverly Eckert died in the crash. Eckert co-founded New Canaan-based Voices of September 11th with Mary Fetchet.

It's an interesting national debate: When funds are donated to a community after a tragedy, who gets them? Do they go to the families of the deceased? To the injured? To the survivors with invisible wounds? To the community as a whole? Who's to decide?

Voices of September 11th co-founder Mary Fetchet was recently inducted into the Hall of Fame at Columbia University School of Social Work in New York City.

The award was presented in recognition of her professional attributes and dedication to the field of social work in her work at Voices. More.