Poem 9/11

A few months after the attack on the World Trade Center, Rudolph Giuliani, then the outgoing mayor of New York City, called for a "soaring" memorial to the people who died on 9/11.Two massive square voids sited within the footprints of the towers. On all four sides of each void, waterfalls descend into a broad reflecting pool, irresistibly. Libeskind had proposed that the exposed foundation pit of the towers, a 70-ft.-deep concrete "bathtub" scorched by the fires of the attack, might be kept open. Arad's victory in the memorial competition meant that Libeskind's idea of preserving that wounded pit was swept away. But scale has a power all its own, and by its very size — each of the voids is about an acre in size. Its right-angled geometry notwithstanding, it appears before you as a vast abstract of nature, of cliffs, waterfalls and chasms. The water pours into the tanks through narrow channels spaced an inch and a half apart, it drops first in separate rivulets. The names are engraved — cut all the way through, actually, and back lit at night — on bronze panels along the parapets that form the perimeter of both voids; In all there are 2,983. The voids with a six-acre park plaza of granite pavers and closely planted white oaks that will eventually grow to a height of 60 feet, forming a leafy canopy in the warm weather months. Including the park, the memorial covers just under half the 16-acre World Trade Center site.

The whole point of this is to keep in memory the terrible thing that happen on that Tuesday, that beautiful blue sky all the sudden turn into a cloud of smoke. This monument was to kept those lives  who were lost in memory. The monument is two huge pools with waterfalls and a lot of trees. They decided to make it like this so there would be a memory of those that left on that Tuesday. They decided to make like this because it can be a memory of the incident but also not make it sad and depressing for the people who go and visited their family members and friends. It is also going to be a park where you can get your morning jog in.