Today we"re featuring the view from the Empty Sky memorial in Jersey City, New Jersey, across the Hudson River, to where the World Trade Center"s Twin Towers once stood in New York City"s lower Manhattan. The Empty Sky memorial honors the 749 people from New Jersey who were killed on September 11, 2001. Their names are etched on two massive steel walls that form a tunnel directing the visitor"s gaze to one of the sites of the deadliest terrorist attack in history. The name Empty Sky comes directly from a song by New Jersey"s favorite son, Bruce Springsteen, about the "empty sky" where the Twin Towers once stood before they were destroyed in the 9/11 attacks.
In honor of those we ve lost
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Camels at Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India
-
Wychwood Forest, Oxfordshire, England
-
An underwater rainbow
-
Observing World Braille Day in Bavaria
-
Speed skaters in the Gangneung Oval, Pyeongchang, South Korea
-
Megalong Valley, Blue Mountains National Park, Australia
-
Wind horses carry wishes for a new year
-
A night of art and culture
-
Listening to the sea
-
Porto, Portugal
-
Hispanic Heritage Month
-
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act marks 42 years
-
Navajo Bridge in Marble Canyon
-
Happy Pride Month!
-
Take me to the river
-
Alstrom Point, Lake Powell, Utah
-
Happy Presidents Day
-
Happy Father s Day
-
An Alpine fairy-tale castle
-
Ancient til trees in Fanal Forest, Madeira, Portugal
-
Old Town Quito
-
Puma in Patagonia
-
A unique perspective from Italy’s ‘golden sands’
-
Stari Most in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
-
Evidence of human habitation
-
World Oceans Day
-
Lantern Festival
-
Reindeer, Lapland, Finland
-
Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia
-
Meandering through Patagonia
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

