You have to register ahead of time and get tickets to visit the memorial and go through lots of security to get into the site. They have two huge fountains that were built where the towers stood and they are building a museum in between that won't be ready for about another year and a half. There is construction going on around the site, I think they are building another tower, but it will just be one tower instead of two and supposedly is supposed to be taller than the other WTC towers. It's in the very beginning phases it looks like though.
It was a sobering experience being there. I wondered how many of the people around me may have been family members or friends of the names etched on the memorials.
The trunk is dark and scratched. Knots and jagged wood dot the middle of the tree, scars from branches snapped off long ago. As the eye wanders up the tree, the bark gets lighter and smoother; lush, green leaves pop out of the branches.
“This tree actually has a timeline etched into its bark,” said Ron Vega, director of design and construction for the 9/11 Memorial. Vega pointed out the pre- and post-9/11 growth on the tree. “She is her own time capsule,” he said.
The tree, aptly named the Survivor Tree, stands roughly near where it was planted in the 1970’s where it greeted guests in the plaza of the World Trade Center for decades. After the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the tree was buried for weeks under the rubble of the Twin Towers, the buildings that once surrounded it.
In October of 2001, the tree was dug out of the rubble; the last living thing pulled from ground zero.
“She represents so much more than just the resilience of the city. She represents the resilience of that event,” said Vega. “She represents the ability to come back after so much trauma.”
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