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Today's installment of the Visionaries in Service blog series features a Q&A with Joe Quinn, Founder and CEO of Feltman's of Coney Island. Joe talks about his military service and the impact of losing his brother, Jimmy, in the attacks.
Our Salute to Service series - paying tribute to Visionaries whose paths led them to military service - continues with Pat Tillman Foundation Scholar Ashley Nicolas. Currently an assistant district attorney, Ashley answers a few questions here about 9/11 and the role it played in shaping her journey.
Ahead of Veterans Day and Salute to Service, we're paying tribute to members of our Visionary Network whose paths led them to the United States military. In this series, they share their unique perspective on the relationship between the 9/11 attacks and military service - and lessons learned from both.
More than 400 NYPD recruits paid tribute this morning at the Memorial, honoring the 23 members of the police department who lost their lives on September 11, 2001.
The tremendous outpouring of love and support we saw from around the globe on September 11 underscored the fact that even in the face of unfathomable adversity, our capacity for hope and resilience will unite and carry us through. Today we're looking at highlights from the milestone anniversary.
The National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY, hosts an exhibit of commemorative quilts from our collection, on display through November 2. Each tells its own piece of the overarching 9/11 story; together, they serve as essential "ambassadors" from New York to the world as we mark 20 years since the attacks.
Nominations are open now through Sunday for the inaugural America250 Awards, which this year will recognize individuals who embody and represent the strength and bravery that came to define 9/11 - and the spirit of the nation as a whole.
Brenda Berkman, a pioneering female firefighter, spent September 11 and the ensuing weeks as a first responder searching for survivors and remains at Ground Zero. After retiring from the FDNY, she turned to art as a way to channel personal and collective trauma, documenting the rebuilding of lower Manhattan in a series of prints. A collection of those prints - "Altered Skyline: Thirty-Six Views of One World Trade Center" - is now on view at the Flaten Art Museum in Minnesota.
More than 300 dignitaries from around the globe attended a special tribute ceremony this week, organized on behalf of the United Nations by their Office of Counter-Terrorism to remember and honor those killed in the 9/11 attacks. Guests observed a moment of silence and laid wreaths in memory of 9/11 victims and terrorism victims around the globe.
Henry Leutwyler's photographs of objects from our collection let each remnant and remembrance tell its own piece of the 9/11 narrative. The photos - commissioned by National Geographic in cooperation with the Museum - are on view through the 26th at the Foley Gallery, as part of Leutwyler's "Sacred Dust" exhibit.
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