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
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Dancers perform ‘Revelations’
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World Octopus Day
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Illuminations on the Gulf of Poets
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The Unfinished Obelisk near Aswan, Egypt
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A long path to freedom
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World Wildlife Day
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Storm rolls over the grasslands
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Spring blooms in the Netherlands
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