The Reminder of Disaster!

   Looking at the two photos, most people will be shocked by the giant, black hole on it. If we examine them carefully, we will find there is waterfall flowing gently along the slope walls to the center of the bottomless hole. Can you guess what symbol of this giant hole? What it reminds us of? Yes, you are right. It is the National September 11 Memorial, a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near

Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.

The Memorial’s twin reflecting pools are each nearly an acre in size and feature the largest man-made waterfalls in the North America. The pools sit within the footprints where the Twin Towers once stood. As you walk around the pool, people’s heart will sink at the sight of the names carved on the edge of the pool. The names of every person who died in the 2001 and 1993 attacks are inscribed into bronze panels edging the Memorial pools, a powerful reminder of the largest loss of life resulting from a foreign attack on American soil and the greatest single loss of rescue personnel in American history. I was greatly moved by the pure white rose placed on one name, the deepest love dedicated to the death by a family member or a friend. May such disaster will never befall on human beings.