Emotional visitor messages at 9/11 tribute center

The Tribute WTC Visitor Center next to the Trade Center site in lower Manhattan gets about 500,000 tourists and others a year. The center, co-founded by a retired New York firefighter who lost his son in 9/11, contains memorabilia and an amazing collection of cards with more than 200,000 messages written by visitors from around the world.
Some are published in the new book 9/11: The World Speaks (Lyons Press, $24.95).
They range from a Tower 1 survivor's tale: "I ran & almost didn't make it across the street when flaming chunks of steel started to rain down & hit the street. I survived by getting under a parked car, came out when the "shower" stopped & ran 7 never looked back. ... I WILL NEVER FORGET. WE MUST NEVER FORGET."
A South American wrote: "I come from a country with a lot of violence (Colombia). When I lived there, I never cry. When I was evacuated from the Sears Tower that 9/11 for the first time I cry ... I did for my now American fellows and my Colombian people who died at the hands of terrorists."
A New Zealand youth wrote of being "dumbfounded at how religion and politics could cause so much pain."
And a young U.S. visitor wrote: "It was in that moment that I became an adult. Did I want to? No."
The Tribute Center is open daily. Adult admission is $15.

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