The MEMO Blog

On a snowy Friday in February 1993, amid reports of a transformer explosion at the World Trade Center, Cooper Union freshmen, Gregory Miller and Justin Spivey decided to investigate the scene themselves.

It was approaching lunchtime on Feb. 26, 1993 when Jeannine Ali felt the earth shake from her office on the 45th floor of the North Tower. Acrid smoke soon began to pour through the office’s air vents.

Sean Rooney and his wife Beverly Eckert met when they were 16 years old at a high school dance. They married and lived in an old Victorian house they restored in Stamford, Conn.

The oral histories collected by 9/11 Memorial Museum span the range of the whole human experience. The tales of bravery and loss, endurance and suffering and life and death often have one element in common: love.

Though the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s inaugural special exhibition, Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11, opened in September 2016 the installation continues to evolve.

VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi has traveled the world investigating the origins and impact of the world’s deadliest terrorist organizations.

Jillian Suarez was 9 years old when her father NYPD officer Ramon Suarez gave his life saving others on Sept. 11, 2001.

As the World Trade Center site continues to evolve, reflections off the glass façade of the 9/11 Memorial Museum are ever changing.

As Orlando continues its healing journey after a nightclub shooting that killed 49 people and injured more than 50 others, city officials planted a Survivor Tree seedling in the hope that the tree will “grow into a symbol of our community's resiliency.”

Eight months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the FDNY football team suited up to battle the NYPD in their annual game for charity. But in 2002, the Finest versus the Bravest game would take place at Giant’s Stadium so 15,000 fans could honor them as heroes.