SIEGEL: This is a flag that went into space. Drummers and pipers from the police department and the fire department and the Port Authority police department are marching.ĬORNISH: And they'll be coming in with the lead World Trade Center flag, I think, and this was the flag that flew over the site until late October 2001. Right now, I can see the pipers on their way. SIEGEL: Well, that moment, I think, they became much more loved. In 1993, in February, when there was an attempt to bomb. SIEGEL: I don't think anybody thought of them the way New Yorkers think of the Empire State Building or the Chrysler building or, from an older time, the Woolworth building. I mean, what do these acres mean to you? What is it like for you to see this now? It's a very impressive design and should introduce a very quiet park to this part of the city.ĬORNISH: And I have to ask, Robert, you're actually from New York. SIEGEL: So it's a very - I think it's - I've been able to see it from very high up, from a window up on the 34th floor on the east side of the ground zero site and now, from 10 stories up on the other side. And I know that - I believe the names of the victims of the attacks are etched on the lip of each of these reflecting pools. SIEGEL: But I think there's someday going to be just a very beautiful, open space in the midst of one of the most built-up places in the entire world - this lower financial and business district of New York City.ĬORNISH: We spoke with the planner of the 9/11 site, Daniel Libeskind, who talked about his idea that this, essentially, is a place to honor memory. From your view, I'm sure you can see - more than 400 swamp white oak trees have already been planted at the site. SIEGEL: And the memorial is to victims all over the country on that day, both here - at 9/11 - and also in Shanksville, and also at the Pentagon.ĬORNISH: And I want to talk a little bit more about what the memorial looks like. The audience that's in the site proper, it's only family, correct? There are people in the audience who are holding pictures of their loved ones.ĬORNISH: And some have signs saying, you know, never forget - or remembering their relatives. ROBERT SIEGEL: But for now, what we're waiting on is the processional - the bagpipers and the drummers representing the local uniformed services of New York and New Jersey.ĬORNISH: And Robert, I can see on - we have some TV screens here. Robert, tell us what we're going to see next. He's on the 10th floor of 2 World Financial Center, overlooking the National September 11th Memorial and ground zero. Now in a moment, we're going to turn to the official ceremony in New York, which is going to begin with bagpipers and drummers.
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