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The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and
honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September
11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the
Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center
bombing in February 1993.
The Memorial’s twin reflecting pools are each nearly an acre in size and
feature the largest manmade waterfalls in the North America. The pools
sit within the footprints where the Twin Towers once stood. Architect
Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker created the Memorial
design selected from a global design competition that included more than
5,200 entries from 63 nations.
The names of every person who died in the 2001 and 1993 attacks are
inscribed into bronze panels edging the Memorial pools, a powerful re-
minder of the largest loss of life resulting from a foreign attack on Ameri-
can soil and the greatest single loss of rescue personnel in American
history.
