A memorial is a structure that honors a person or several people. When people think about the World Trade Center and the Twin Towers they think about September 11, 2001. There is much more history to the World Trade Center than this. Most people do not know that there was another attack on the towers before September 11. The 9/11 memorial honors all people lost in the terror attacks of 1993 and 2001. The World Trade Center consists of seven buildings. The main buildings were the Twin Towers. The Twin Towers construction started in 1966 and was completed in 1973 although tenants started to arrive in 1970. The antenna started being used in 1980. The North Tower was 1,730 feet high with a multi purpose antenna on top of it, the south tower was 1,362 feet high each with 110 floors. On a good day when you were …show more content…
In the footprint of the twin towers sits the mirroring pools which are an acre in size each. The pools consist of the largest manmade waterfalls in North America. At night the pools are lit up and the lights from the pools shine up through the names of those killed during the attacks. On the anniversaries of 9/11 lights shine up into the sky were the Twin Towers once stood. Throughout the memorial there are hundreds of swamp white oak trees which came from the areas affected by the 9/11 terror attacks such as Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. The trees create a peaceful environment along with the flowing water from the pools. There is one tree that sticks out among the rest, the survivor tree. The tree was removed from the rubble after the attacks. The tree had broken and burned branches as well as well as broken roots. The tree was rehabilitated and now stands tall and healthy among the rest of the trees. The tree is now apart of the seedling program which gives seedlings from the tree to areas that have suffered a