At 8:32 am Wednesday morning, on the first day that the National September 11 Memorial Museum opened to the public, 26 uniformed police officers and firefighters marched onto the lawn of the memorial and unfurled an American flag that had flown at 90 West Street, adjacent to Ground Zero, for weeks after the attacks.
9/11 Memorial Museum opens to public, as special flag is unfurled
9/11 museum designed to evoke memories without causing fresh pain
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum officially opens to the public Wednesday, but Charles G. Wolf saw the inside days ago.
Wolf lost his wife, Katherine, in the World Trade Center attack and he and other family members were among the first to visit the museum, which sits seven stories underground, below where the Twin Towers once stood. More.
Why do only 8% of the tasteless toys at the 9/11 Museum gift shop claim to be Made in America?
After reliving September 11, 2001 all over again at the newly-opened 9/11 Museum, visitors can purchase stuffed animals, glass ornaments, World Trade Center-printed ties and other tasteless souvenirs at the gift shop, located just a few feet away from the final resting place of 8,000 unidentified remains of victims from the tragedy.
Ann Coulter: 9/11 Memorial Gift Shop Is A ‘Silly Controversy’
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter told CNN’s Don Lemon Monday night that the National September 11 Memorial Hall and Museum should “absolutely” have a gift shop. “Yes, absolutely. The Holocaust museum has a gift shop. This is a museum,” Coulter said.
9/11 Memorial Museum and Store Sparks Outrage
Now to anger surrounding the long delayed opening of the 9/11 memorial museum. Some victims' families are outraged about the admission price and gift shop at a museum housing human remains. ABC's gio Benitez is there at ground zero.
Good morning, gio. Reporter: Good morning, robin. Those remains are in a private room underground but in the same building as that gift shop and so this morning some of the families tell me they are furious. More.
With 9/11 museum's opening, Battery Park City bounces back
Robert Simko, longtime Battery Park City resident and community newspaper publisher, hopes the National September 11 Memorial Museum will be a testament to the morning of 9/11.
"The story needs to be kept alive," said Simko, who, like hundreds in the neighborhood, watched from their windows as two hijacked jetliners crashed into the towers. More.
How 9/11 Made Journalists Part of the Story
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.