"The number of the people featured in this year's webinar were kids themselves on 9/11, so they're now in their late 20s, early 30s, but the stories they tell are the stories of their own experience of that day," Greenwald added. However, this year the museum is hoping to reach an even younger level as those individuals becomes older. "The power of the first person narrative of people sharing their personal story resonates with children," Greenwald said. That includes family members of victims, people who evacuated the buildings and survived, first responders, people who worked on the recovery, and people who were rescued that day. "I remember sitting in class watching it, and it's just always been something that's really stuck out to me.my first thing in history that I've actually experienced, so this has been something on my bucket list that I've wanted to do.coming here was really important to me," she added. She was 11 years old on that fateful day. "It's indescribable."ĭayna Hias of Santa Rosa California also felt compelled to visit the site. "We thought this was pertinent and it's a part of our nation's history, to actually come to see it," she told Yahoo Finance. She felt it was crucial to visit the memorial and museum on her first visit to New York. One of those people is Amanda Carithers of San Diego, who was in her 9th grade English class on. "So while our mission remains the same, our focus is evolving to be more responsive to this next generation." "There's an entire generation of people, 25 years and younger, kids, who were maybe too young to remember the events or born after 9/11, for whom this is history, history to be learned," she explained. "We're in the middle of a transition from memory to history," Alice Greenwald, National September 11 Memorial and Museum President and CEO told Yahoo Finance in an interview. And now, 20 years after the destruction of the Twin Towers, the museum is also looking to the next generation. Today, the museum and eight acre memorial acts as a beacon of sorts, welcoming visitors from across the globe with a mission to commemorate, educate and inspire. The 9/11 Memorial & Museum opened in May of 2014, to remember, reflect and honor those lost in the attacks on both September 11, 2001, and Februthe first attack on the World Trade Center.
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