Student Reflects on Trip to 9/11 Memorial
Student Reflects on Trip to 9/11 Memorial
![Several small American flags stand at the name of firefighter Stephen Gerard Siller on a bronze parapet at the 9/11 Memorial.](/sites/default/files/styles/standard/public/images/JL_SILLER_02.jpg?itok=IugvqxM2)
The spirit of Memorial Day was captured perfectly in a guest column today by Michaela Aptt in the Sun Chronicle of North Attleboro, Mass.
The writer was part of a large group of high school students who recently visited the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. Aptt connected that memory to yesterday’s Memorial Day parade in North Attleboro. Among the reflections:
“Although I had been warned, nothing could've prepared me for the content of the exhibit and the impact it would have on me, so I started to cry,” she writes.
Read the entire story, including a moving interaction with a Museum Visitor Services Host.
By Anthony Guido, Director of Communications
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![William Quindlan stands atop the Last Column at Ground Zero. He is holding onto an American flag that has been placed on top of the column.](/sites/default/files/images/C.2012.206.173_David%20Margules_0.jpg)
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