Video previews WTC memorial museum
Although the World Trade Center memorial museum won't open for another two years, the public can get a computer generated preview of a special exhibit that will honor all 2,982 victims of the terror attacks.
A walk-through video, made available to Newsday, depicts the extensive wall of pictures, which will contain images of all the victims who died at the trade center in 2001 and 1993, as well as those killed on Sept. 11 in Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa.
The wall of faces will occupy underground space within the footprint of the south tower and its size is designed so that visitors can "see the scale of loss," National September 11 Memorial & Museum president Joseph Daniels told Newsday.
The sound portion of the video has some audio remembrances spoken by families of the dead that will play as a backdrop to the photos. Further images on the preview show interactive kiosks to allow museum visitors to call up separate presentations about individual victims. The above-ground tree-lined memorial is scheduled to open on Sept. 11, 2011, and the museum will open exactly one year later.
"It's to show a total picture (of victims) as they died, the lives they lived," said Daniels of the biographical displays.
However, firefighter James McCaffrey, whose brother-in-law and fellow firefighter Orio Palmer of Valley Stream died on Sept. 11, thought the kiosks symbolically just extend the pain of families."The loved ones for victims are still having to look for victims," said McCaffrey.
The preview video will be available shortly at the museum website, www.national911memorial.org.
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