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A Cultural Reverie on the New 9-11 Memorial Museum

9-11 doesn't need a year date, 2001. 9-11 is one of those dates -- at least in the American mind -- that lives in a category named "inconceivable." It's a date when the twin towers of American mythology -- invincibility and transparency -- came crashing down.

We are now more than a dozen years in front of that day, but 9-11 is still with us: perhaps a bit submerged in our consciousness, but no less potent than it was on that beautiful NYC morning.

ME Red Cross offers emotional support at 9/11 Memorial

Volunteers with Maine's Red Cross chapter will be heading to New York to provide mental health support for families viewing the new 9/11 Memorial Museum.

The museum is opening one week early for those directly impacted by the events of September 11th. More.

Michael Bloomberg and the path to 9/11 museum

Michael Bloomberg was an unlikely savior of the museum that honors the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks - a project stalled for years in a morass of debate among family members, urban planners and politicians.

Muslim Advocates Amplify 9/11 Museum Film Concerns

Muslim advocates and scholars are stepping up pressure on the Sept. 11 museum to edit or at least let more scholars see a documentary movie exhibit about al-Qaida before the museum's opening this month.

Muslim groups began expressing concerns after members of the museum's interfaith clergy advisory panel raised alarms last month that the movie unfairly links Islam and terrorism. One member resigned in protest. More.

Families protest return of remains to 9/11 memorial

Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son was killed at the World Trade Center, is outraged that the unidentified remains of 9/11 victims have been transferred to a repository 70 feet underground in the same building as the National September 11 Memorial Museum.

More Cops Have Died From 9/11-Related Diseases Than Those Who Died On 9/11

The number of NYPD officers who fatally succumbed from 9/11-related illnesses has now surpassed the number of officers killed in the attacks, according to the New York State Police Officers' Memorial in Albany.

Obama, Michelle to Attend 9/11 Museum Dedication on May 15

President Obama and the First Lady will attend the dedication of the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York on May 15, a White House official said.

The White House had no immediate additional details. More.

9/11 museum unveils online registry for survivors, rescue workers

A museum dedicated to the nearly 3,000 people who died in the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington on Wednesday unveiled online registries where survivors, rescue workers and witnesses can share their memories.