The Challenge of
Memorializing 9/11

The future site of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum is still very much a work in progress, as politics, soaring costs and
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Ground Zero Today
The future site of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum is still very much a work in progress. Politics, a shrinking economy, soaring costs and raw emotions have delayed progress on its development. On August 24, workers re-installed the famed "Last Column," the final steel beam to be removed from the original World Trade Center site and a centerpiece to the future Memorial Museum.

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