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             ▶Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visit 'the 9-11 Memorial site located at Ground Zero with New York

                City Mayor Michael Bloomberg◀

 

New York-Devense Secretary Leon E. Panetta toured the National Sep 11 "Memorial and

Museum site here Tuesday. U.S.A.

    "This Sunday, the nation marks the tenth (10) anniversary of 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in the history of the United States," the secretary told reporters.  "We will honor those who died at the Pentagon, 184 of them, but I thought it was also appropriate to come here and honor those, nearly 3,000, who died here in New York City."

 

    Panetta is the first cabinet officer to visit the site.  New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg

welcomed the secretary to the site and accompanined him during his visit.

Lower Manhattan's ground zero is still a construction zone, with hard hatted workers,

cranes and heavy equipment all busy on new buildings near the former site of the two towers.

 

    The area where the towers stood, however, will open as part of the memorial to the public

this Sept,11 .. the tenth anniversary of the attacks that killed 2,996 people after terrorist

hijckers crashed four passenger jets:  one into each of the towers, one into the Pentagon,

and one into a field near Shanksville, Pa., short of its likely Washington, D.C., target.

 

    The 8-acre memorial centers on the sites of the former towers, now transformed to

square granite-reflecting (화강암) pools, are each about an acre in size.  The waterfalls are edged with bronze ledges(선반, 돌출부) about waist-high, inscribed with the names of all the victims who died in the 2001 attacks, as well as the six pople killed during the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

 

    The terrorist attacks of a decade ago(10년전) brought the nation together in a commitment(공약,서약, 약속)that such horror(공포) "will never happen again, Panetta said.

    "As tragic as 9/11 was, we have drawn tremendous inspiration , he said, adding that those who attacked the United State in an attempt to weaken the country actually made it

stronger.

 

    "I think this is going to be a special place," he said of New York City's 9/11 memorial and

museum, "for people to ....come to and remind themselves not only of the sacrifice that was made, but also the great strength the American people have in coming back,"

 

    During his visit to ground zero, Panetta also toured the Memorial Museum, which is scheduled to open next year on Sept 11.  Seven of the museum's 10 storeis are underground, and part of the above-ground structure will display structural components

recovered after the towers fell.

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