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Please Note:
NIST to Release Report
and Recommendations from
their Investigation of World Trade Center Building
7
Thursday, August 21, 2008, 11:00am (noon EDT)
Gaithersburg, MD and live online
The US Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) will hold a media briefing and live public webcast on
August 21, 2008, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on the findings and recommendations
from its building and fire safety investigation of the collapse of World Trade Center
Building 7 (WTC 7). WTC 7 was a 47-story building that fell nearly seven hours
after the World Trade Center (WTC) towers collapsed following the terrorist attacks
of Sept. 11, 2001.
The NIST WTC 7 report will present the probable collapse sequence for the building
and will provide recommendations for improving building and fire safety in other
buildings similar to WTC 7. The draft WTC 7 investigation report released at the
briefing will be open for public comment through to noon Eastern Daylight Time
on Sept. 15, 2008.
The live webcast that will be accessible from NIST's WTC website at http://wtc.nist.gov
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Tribute WTC Visitor Center Presentation:
Ordinary People, Remarkable Stories 9-11: A Day that Changed the World
October 20 and 21, 2008
6:30 Reception
7:30 Performance
TribeccaPerforming Arts Center
199 Chambers Street, NY
A performance given by the Tribute Center docents at the Tribecca Performing
Arts Center, in which they share their own personal stories and memories of
September 11, 2001.
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The World Trade Center Family House
The Family House has been a part of the World Trade Center site since 2002.
The Family House has moved locations twice, and now has made a third move.
Because of construction, it has returned to its original location on Liberty Street.
To visit the Family House, enter the site through Gate #7. To get to Gate #7,
walk west on Liberty Street from Church Street, pass the firehouse, and continue
down Liberty under the scaffolding along the southern perimeter of the site.
Gate #7 is located at the end of Liberty Street, near the stairs that lead to the
World Financial Center.
The guards at the gate will direct you to the Family House. The Family
House is open 7 days a week from 9:00am to 7:00pm. Your Family ID
from the Medical Examiner’s Office is needed to gain access to the area.
If you do not have a Medical Examiner’s Family ID, contact the Medical Examiner’s
office at 212-447-4394 to make an appointment to get one. All family members
are encouraged to do this. The Medical Examiner’s Family ID will give you access
to other family-related sites, such as the Family Room on the 20th floor of
One Liberty Plaza, Memorial Park (which is between East 29th Street and East 30th
Street on the FDR Drive), and Medical Examiner’s Family ID will be needed for
different events related to September 11th.
For further questions or information, please contact Davella May at the
Port Authority of NY and NJ at 212-435-5552 or e-mail her at
dmay@panynj.gov.
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Tribute WTC Visitor Center Family Submissions
The Tribute Gallery where loved ones will be included will be a rotating exhibition
that we hope will include all loved ones over the next three years. The Tribute Center
is intended to be an interim visitors’ center until the World Trade Center Memorial and
Museum are open.
If you are an immediate family member who did not receive the request and would
like to send photos, please complete the web registration form by clicking on the top
left corner of this screen where it says “Become a September 11th Families’
Association Member Now!” In the Question and Comments box at the bottom of
the form, indicate you are an immediate family member and would like to receive the
photo submission form for Tribute. Please complete the form fully, including loved
ones’ information so we are able to send you the appropriate information.The form
is simply a registration to receive information. If you do not want to receive other
information from the Association, please indicate this in the comment box. The
Association maintains strict confidentiality of all family information. Please note we
are working very hard in a small space to represent all loved ones and may reserve
multiple submissions for inclusion at a later date. We are working to build the
Tribute Center together with families and appreciate the support, contributions
and submissions all families have made to make the Center a special place for
visitors. The response we have received thus far has been beautifully thoughtful
and touching. We know that your care and generosity in sharing these memories
with the world will help to ensure that those we lost on September 11, 2001 and
February 26, 1993 will never be forgotten.
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TRIBUTE WTC VISITOR CENTER
The Tribute WTC Visitor Center is a visitor and learning center that opened
September 2006. Located at 120 Liberty Street in New York across the street from
the World Trade Center site, Tribute is a place where visitors can learn about the
events of February 26, 1993 and September 11, 2001. Through the voices of many
individuals in the exhibitions and programs, Tribute will inform, educate and provide
a place for reflection.
The Tribute Center embodies the need to gather at the World Trade Center
site, connect with the people, places and events of February 26, 1993 and
September 11, 2001, and reflect.
The mission of the Tribute Center project is to create an immersive interaction for
visitors who flock to the World Trade Center site to try and find a connection between
themselves and the experience. People are motivated to come to the site for different
reasons. There are as many reasons, as there are people who come. The motivations
include: to pay their respects, to see the devastation first hand, to pay homage to the
rescue workers, survivors and the families, to relive the event, to remember a past visit,
to witness history and some come to finally lay it to rest and place it behind them. Some
are coming to walk the site alone, some are thirsty for information. All have some things
in common: a motivation, an expectation (though they may all be different), and a will to
get there.
The Tribute Center grew out of the need to respond to the desire of people to come
to the site. It grew out of the desire of families and those closely affected by 9/11,
to share the story of the people, the day, the actions, the heroism, the courage,
the loss and the grief. It came from a realization that history is being written every
day and in order to share the individual stories with people who have come seeking
enlightenment andpersonal contact, there is a need to create an organization and a
physical point of origin so that the needs of those coming to learn could be aligned
with the need of those willing to share.
The Tribute Center is a project of the September 11th Families Association. The
Association realized the need to provide information to the thousands of visitors
who gather at the World Trade Center site each day. Tribute will serve as a place
to welcome visitors until the World Trade Center Memorial is completed in 2009.
To volunteer for the Tribute Center guide program, visit www.tributewtc.org
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Letters of Appreciation
Many vistors to the Tribute WTC Visitor Center have written letters of thanks
for how Tribute and the docent tours around the WTC site remember those who lost their
liveson September 11, 2001, as well as on February 26 1993. Click here on the link below
to view what some visitors have said about the Tribute WTC Visitor Center.
www.911families.org/lettersofappreciation/html
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Red Cross Ends Some 9/11 Aid Programs
The American Red Cross, which has taken in more than $1 billion in Sept. 11 donations,
is ending some programs that have given $178 million primarily to victims' relatives before
it phases out most of its Sept. 11 programs next year, a spokesman said.
"This is part of our exit strategy of moving services into the communities where people
directly affected by 9/11 live and work," Red Cross spokesman Jeffrey Hon said.
The Red Cross stopped taking applications on Dec. 30 for some of the programs
that it directly administered, and by the end of 2007 it is expected to have transferred
its funds to some of the more than 100 nonprofits that provide counseling, health and
educational services. The Red Cross is one of the largest charities to provide help to
families, rescue workers and residents affected by the 2001 terrorist attacks. The
programs being discontinued by the Red Cross include the Supplemental Gift program,
which gave $55,000 payments to each of the more than 3,000 estates of Sept. 11
victims and to some of the most severely injured. The agency also gave $9.5 million
to more than 800 people who were disabled or demonstrated financial difficulty and
$2.6 million to social work services for hundreds of people.
For more information, please visit www.redcross.org/september11/help.
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