The MEMO Blog

Today we remember the day that changed us forever. A day when a city famous for toughness became legendary for kindness.

The 9/11 Memorial held a ceremony to honor the bravery of Medal of Honor recipient Ty Carter.

Manhattan native, Marina Isaac, is part of the 9/11 Memorial’s visitor services team. Isaac was just starting her second day of sophomore year of high school on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

Elizabeth Berger, who served as the president of the Alliance for Downtown New York since 2007, has died.

Last week, when the 9/11 Memorial Museum project team temporarily removed the protective covering from the Last Column and returned the tribute messages to its surfaces, team member after team member walked into the museum’s Foundation Hall and said, "Wow, I haven't seen the Last Column like this since it was removed from the site of the former World Trade Center 11 years ago."

Wisconsin native Tom Brown is one of many visitor services hosts posted throughout the 9/11 Memorial.

A total of 17 compelling artifacts have been put into place inside the 9/11 Memorial Museum, slated to open in the spring of 2014.

Amid the challenges faced by many bereaved family and friends after 9/11, was the absence of physical remains to bury, depriving them of this traditional ritual of closure.

Nearly 11 years to the day, a group of about 40 Massachusetts chaplains returned to the World Trade Center site to visit the 9/11 Memorial on May 29 – a day before the anniversary of the May 30, 2002 ceremony that marked the formal end of the recovery efforts at the site.

A memorial is something designed to preserve the memory of a person or a past event.