Tribute 9/11

Tribute 9/11. Nearly 3,000 people from 90 different countries were killed that day, in New York City, at the Pentagon in Virginia, and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. While the damaged Pentagon has been rebuilt, plans are still underway for a memorial in Pennsylvania, and construction has only recently gotten underway on the memorial at Ground Zero, the former site of the World Trade Center in New York City. On that same site, the new Freedom Tower has been under construction since 2006, and will hopefully be completed by 2012, reaching 1,776 feet above Manhattan’s skyline. Here is a brief look back, several views from today, and a peek into the future of these sites. (21 photos total)

Tourists look out over the construction taking place on the World Trade Center site in New York City, two days before the seventh anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. (REUTERS/Chip East)

Workers at Ground Zero watch and take pictures as the first beam for the future 9/11 memorial is raised into place September 2, 2008 in New York. Construction workers started erecting the frame of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum nearly seven years after the terrorist attacks destroyed the World Trade Center. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Construction workers at Ground Zero install the first steel column for the September 11 memorial September 2, 2008 in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

And, a brief look back at the scene of the attacks in New York in September, 2001. Seen here, the twin towers of World Trade Center burn after two planes crashed into each on September 11th. (STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)

New York City, seen by one of the Expedition Three crew members onboard the International Space Station (ISS) on September 11, 2001. The image shows a smoke plume rising from the Manhattan area. The ISS was flying at an altitude of approximately 250 miles. The image was recorded with a digital still camera. (NASA)

A man stands in the rubble, and calls out asking if anyone needs help, shortly after the collapse of the first World Trade Center Tower 11 September, 2001, in New York City. (DOUG KANTER/AFP/Getty Images)

Firefighters make their way through the rubble of the World Trade Center Tower 11 on September 11th, 2001. (DOUG KANTER/AFP/Getty Images)

An aerial view of the scene of the World Trade Center attack, taken 12 days later, on September 23rd, 2001. The image was taken by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), from their Cessna Citation Jet, from an altitude of 3,300 feet. (for a much larger version of this image, with more detail, click here, and scroll to bottom)

And now, seven years later, a view of Ground Zero in 2008. Construction is taking place at the World Trade Center site, Monday, Sept. 8, 2008 in New York. Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. are scheduled to attend a ceremony at the site on Thursday, Sept. 11 to mark the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

An aerial view of lower Manhattan on Monday, Sept. 8, 2008 in New York City. The Staten Island Ferry can be seen at lower right, and the site of the World Trade Center can be seen just left of center, where the white cranes are just visible. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Traffic passes the construction site of the Freedom Tower Friday, September 5, 2008 at the World Trade Center site in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Workers tie steel reinforcing bars in place prior to pouring a concrete floor at the Freedom Tower construction site Friday, September 5, 2008 at the World Trade Center site in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

A large banner depicting the planned New York City skyline with the Freedom Tower hangs on a building beside the former World Trade Center site September 4, 2008 in New York. Approximately 500 workers operate at the site in what is planned to be a 1,776ft tower and an architectural landmark for both New York City and America. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

This is an artist’s rendering provided by the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. It shows an aerial view of the proposed memorial quadrant. The museum unveiled the design Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008, for the entrance pavilion, top center, and repeated hopes that a new construction schedule at ground zero would allow the memorial to open by the attacks’ 10th anniversary. (AP Photo/National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Squared Design Lab)

Construction continues on a large retaining wall next to the foundation of the Freedom Tower at the former World Trade Center site September 4, 2008 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The World Trade Center site, under construction Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008 in New York. In the distance, to the south, the Statue of Liberty and Verrazano-Narrows Bridge can be seen. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

The Survivors’ Staircase, center, is shown at the World Trade Center site Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008 in New York. The staircase, the escape route from the World Trade Center for many survivors of the attacks of September 11th, will become part of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Members of the New York Fire Department and Somerset Volunteer Fire Department, right, unveil a cross made of steel from the north tower of the Word Trade Center during a dedication ceremony at the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Co. in Shanksville, Pa. Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

The Massachusetts Port Authority unveiled this 9/11 memorial at Logan International Airport on September 9th, 2008. The memorial pays tribute to the crew and passengers of American Flight 11 and United Flight 175, which departed from Logan on September 11th, 2001, and were hijacked, then crashed into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. (Travis Dove for The Boston Globe)

Sherill Moulton, left, a flight attendant for United Airlines, and Sara Nelson, right, a flight attendant for American Airlines, comfort each other as they tour a memorial dedicated in Boston, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008, to passengers and crew killed on planes that flew from Logan International Airport on Sept. 11, 2001. Both women had colleagues who were killed on the planes. The 8:14 a.m. departure time for Flight 175 is inscribed on the panel, rear. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

The ‘Tribute in Lights’ shines over the site of the former World Trade Center in New York September 8, 2008. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

David Filipov looks for a picture of his father, Al Filipov, at the Tribute WTC Visitor Center in New York City. The center is run by the September 11th Families Association as a museum and memorial to the victims and history of the World Trade Center and the 9/11/2001 attacks. Filipov’s father was on American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane flown into the towers. (Scott Lewis)

The Falling Man. A man, whose identity remains unknown, falls headfirst after jumping from the north tower of New York’s World Trade Center after it was atacked on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. This now-famous photograph has become iconic, and inspired an article in Esquire magazine, and a later documentary movie. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

The south tower of New York’s World Trade Center collapses Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

An aerial view on September 17th, 2001 shows only a small portion of the scene where the World Trade Center collapsed following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. Surrounding buildings were heavily damaged by the debris and massive force of the falling twin towers. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Photographer’s Mate Eric J. Tilford)

An aerial view of the recovery operation underway in lower Manhattan at the site of the collapsed World Trade Center on October 4, 2001. (Andrea Booher/ FEMA News Photo)

A street scene in lower Manhattan near the site of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Firemen continue to fight the fires that sprout up from within the rubble of the World Trade Center in this September 19, 2001 file photo. (REUTERS/PA2 Tom Sperduto/US Coast Guard)

Sunlight filters into the still-smoldering site of the World Trade Center attack highlighting the remains of Tower Two as workers riding in a basket suspended from a giant crane hover above, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2001, in New York. (AP Photo/William C. Lopez)

Firefighters make their way over the ruins of the World Trade Center through clouds of smoke as work continues at ground zero Thursday, Oct. 11, 2001, in New York, one month after the terrorist attacks on the Trade Center. (AP Photo/Stan Honda)

The sun streams through the dust over the wreckage of the World Trade Center on September 15, 2001. (Andrea Booher/FEMA News Photo)

Exhibit #P200336 from the United States v. Zacarias Moussaoui Criminal trial No. 01-455-A – A collage of photographs of almost 3,000 victims, nearly all of those who were killed during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 (missing are 92 of the victims and all of the terrorists). (USDOJ)

The “Tribute in Light” is seen near the World Trade Center site on September 10, 2009 in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Drops of rain fall through the “Tribute in Light” near the World Trade Center site on September 10, 2009 in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

An airfone recovered from the wreckage of Flight 93, left, and a Pentagon ID from Patrick Dunn are seen at an exhibit at the Smithsonian containing artifacts from the 9/11 attacks, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Albany, N.Y., firefighter Brian Rhatigan of Albany’s Engine 9 looks at the permanent exhibit of artifacts from the World Trade Center attack which includes New York City’s fire department’s Engine 6, background, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2002, at the New York State Museum in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight)

The mangled TV antenna from the World Trade Center anchors the 9/11 exhibit with a wall of that days front pages from around the world at the new Newseum building on April 1, 2008 in Washington, D.C. (TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images)

The World Trade Center site, lower center, and New York’s financial district are shown in this aerial photo taken on March 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Construction of One World Trade Center, previously called the Freedom Tower, continues on September 8, 2009 in New York City. (Rick Gershon/Getty Images)

A PATH commuter train enters the World Trade Center site in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)

In this U.S. Navy file photo of May 28, 2002, cleanup and recovery workers carefully lower a steel beam, the “Last Column” – the final piece of debris to be removed from Ground Zero in a ceremony at the World Trade Center disaster site in New York. (AP Photo/ U.S. Navy, Photographers Mate 2nd Class Bob Houlihan)

Workers and officials watch as the historic “Last Column,” (covered in white) site is returned on August 24, 2009 for permanent installation in the 9/11 Memorial Museum at the WTC site in New York. The 36-foot high “Last Column” was covered in tributes from workers, rescue personnel and family members before the column was removed from the site, marking the end of the recovery efforts in May 2002. (STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)

In this photo taken Sept. 2, 2009, ironworkers use torches to cut steel at 1 World Trade Center in New York. The tower, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, will rise to a height of 1,776 feet (541 meters). (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

The World Trade Center construction site is shown as it appeared this morning, Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

A young woman’s picture is surrounded by umbrellas as friends and relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks gather for a commemoration ceremony at Zuccotti Park, adjacent to ground zero, on the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Frances Watson holds a picture of her niece CeeCee Coss Lyles, who was a flight attendant of United Airlines Flight 93, in front of a plaque unveiled by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid dedicated to Flight 93, at the East Front Lobby of the Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 9, 2009. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Tom Cody, a policeman from Chicago plays bagpipes in tribute to the passengers and crew of United Flight 93 at the Flight 93 Temporary Memorial outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 10, 2009. (REUTERS/ Jason Cohn)

A woman looks at items left at the Flight 93 Temporary Memorial outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 10, 2009. (REUTERS/Jason Cohn)

The Pentagon Memorial illuminated at night, photographed in Arlington, Virginia on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008. (Globe Photo/Wiqan Ang)

A family member of a victim of the 9/11 attack walks through the Pentagon Memorial before a rememberance ceremony September 11, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. U.S. President Barack Obama joined staff and family members at the Pentagon to comemorate the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

A woman takes a photo of a plaque that honors the victims of Flight 93 that was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Sarah Wainio shows the name of her sister Honor, who was killed on Flight 93, tattooed to her wrist, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In this Sept. 2, 2009 photo, Angie Kardashian, who worked as a volunteer in New York after the 9/11 attacks, poses for a photo at her home in Tustin, Calif. Emphasis on volunteerism and service is being made on this 8th anniversary of the attacks. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Campers danced during nearly the entire lunch on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 in America’s Camp, a camp set up in 2002 for kids who lost a parent (or parents) in the attacks of 9/11, and also for children of fire fighters or police officers killed in the line of duty. (Dina Rudick/Globe Staff)

Family members of victims pay their respects at the site of the former twin towers on the eighth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, in New York, September 11, 2009. (REUTERS/Gary Hershorn)

Family members of September 11th attack victims pay their respects on September 11, 2009 at the Ground Zero reflecting pool during the 8th anniversary commemoration ceremony. (CHANG W. LEE/AFP/Getty Images)

U.S. soldiers from Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan pay their respect during 9/11 remembrance ceremony at Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan, at sunset Friday, Sept. 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Flowers float in the reflecting pool after family members of victims placed them as they gathered at Ground Zero during a 9/11 memorial ceremony on September 11, 2009 in New York City. (Chang W. Lee/Getty Images)

Flowers now fill the reflecting pool during the eighth anniversary remembrance of the attacks on New York and Washington, in New York September 11, 2009. (REUTERS/Chip East)

Last Saturday, September 11th, people all over the United States and the world took time to remember the victims of the terrorist attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania nine years ago. Progress on the rebuilding of Ground Zero in lower Manhattan is now becoming more evident as One World Trade Center topped 36 stories recently, on its way to 1,776 feet by 2012. The building, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, is now growing at a rate of one floor per week, after years of political, security and financing issues plagued the $11 billion multi-building project. A push is underway in both New York and Pennsylvania to complete memorial projects before next year’s 10th anniversary. Collected here are photos from this weekend’s memorials and of the rebuilding progress so far. (42 photos total)

Two-year-old Luke Pavlenishzili, riding on the shoulders of his father George Pavlenishzili, offers a rose to New York firefighter Joe Huber, who was standing at the reflecting pool at ground zero during a memorial service commemorating the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Chang W. Lee)

John Blossom of Connecticut sits by himself in quiet contemplation across from the site of the former twin towers on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2010. Blossom commented that he was supposed to have been inside the World Trade Center at the time it was attacked but circumstances kept him from being there. (REUTERS/Gary Hershorn)

A boy sits in silence on the edge of a reflecting pool in memory of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks September 11, 2010 in New York City. Thousands gathered to pay solemn homage on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

A firefighter salutes as taps is played, before a moment of silence for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, during a commemoration ceremony at Zuccotti Park, adjacent to ground zero, on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Patty Sumner holds up a picture of her brother Lt. Joseph G. Leavey next to Ground Zero September 11, 2010 in New York City. Lt. Leavey was a New York City fire fighter who was killed on September 11, 2001. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Notes and flowers are seen left by family members of the 9/11 victims that visited the reflecting pool in memory of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on September 11, 2010 in New York City. (Chang W. Lee/Getty Images)

An honor guard plays trumpet at the World Trade Center site during a memorial service commemorating the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Chang W. Lee)

Family members of 9/11 victims gather on the edge of a reflecting pool in memory of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on September 11, 2010 in New York City. (Chang W. Leel/Getty Images)

A rose floats in the reflecting pool at Ground Zero during the annual 9/11 memorial service September 11, 2010 in New York City. (Don Emmert/Getty Images)

Mennonite Christians sing hymns during 9/11 commemorations outside the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2010 in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

People walk past the famous cross discovered in the rubble of Ground Zero prior to 9/11 commemorations outside the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2010 in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Liza Adams wears a necklace with a portrait of her daughter, Mary Lou Hague, 26 killed during the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York September 11, 2010. (REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi)

A woman sits on a bench at the Pentagon Memorial prior to a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Arlington, Virginia on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. President Barack Obama called it “a day of remembrance, a day of reflection” after laying a wreath during the ceremony honoring the 184 government workers and airline passengers who died when hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the headquarters of the Defense Department nine years ago at 9:37 a.m. (Alex Wong/Bloomberg)

President Barack Obama hugs a woman as he greets family members of victims after speaking at the Pentagon Memorial, marking the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

A man holds his hat while praying at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 11, 2010, during a service of remembrance, marking the 9th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

US former First Lady Laura Bush and First Lady Michelle Obama bow their heads in prayer at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2010, during a service of remembrance. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

A temporary memorial rests at the crash site at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 2010. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

Ribbons of Remembrance are tied to the fence at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 11, 2010. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

From left, Gordon W.Felt, president of Families of Flight 93 and Joanne Hanley, Superintendent of the Flight 93 National Memorial show U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama and former first lady Laura Bush the future site of the memorial that is under construction during a 9/11 Flight 93 commemoration September 11, 2010 in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. (Archie Carpenter/Getty Images)

People walk amongst flags erected by students and staff from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, who placed nearly 3,000 flags in the ground to honor the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, on September 10, 2010. (MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

Christopher Gardner, 12, of Darien, Connecticut waits outside for his mother during a remembrance ceremony for Connecticut victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at Sherwood Island State Park in Wesport, Connecticut on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Gardner’s father Christopher Samuel Gardner worked at the World trade center and was killed in the Sept. 11 attack. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Chicago Cubs’ Alfonso Soriano gets back to first base safely on a pick off attempt by Milwaukee Brewers’ Randy Wolf in the fifth inning of a baseball game Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

A woman reacts as she visits the memorial garden to the victims of the September 11 attacks on the United States, in London, England on September 11, 2010. (REUTERS/Paul Hackett)

Names of UK citizens who died in the 9/11 attacks are pictured on a plaque in the Grosvenor Square memorial, on September 11, 2010 in London, England. Family of the victims, government officials and others gathered in Grosvenor Square in central London, on the 9th annual ceremony to remember the people who lost their lives in the attacks. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

U.S. military personnel participate in a candlelight service to honor those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, at Camp Phoenix, Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/ Mustafa Quraishi)

Construction continues at the World Trade Center site with memorial footprints of the twin towers visible September 7, 2010 in New York City. Officials provided an update on the rebuilding efforts as the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks approaches. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

One World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, seen under construction on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, in New York. When completed the building will rise to 1,776 feet (541 meters). (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

An ironworker pushes a beam into place on One World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Memorials built in the footprint of the World Trade Center towers are seen in front of One World Trade Center as it is being built at the World Trade Center construction site in New York September 8, 2010. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

Construction materials sit in and around a memorial built in the footprint of the north tower of the World Trade Center tower at the World Trade Center construction site in New York September 8, 2010. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

Construction workers complete detail work on the wall of one of the reflecting pools that will form part of the 9/11 memorial on Ground Zero August 31, 2010 in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

A sample stone slab inscribed with names of victims from the 9/11 terrorist attacks is seen at Ground Zero August 31, 2010 in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

A grove of sixteen swamp white oaks is planted at the National September 11 Memorial, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010 in New York. Crews Saturday began planting the 16 trees at the World Trade Center site. They are the first of nearly 400 trees to be planted around the eight-acre memorial to the nearly 3,000 people killed when terrorists attacked the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Workers continue construction inside the in-progress One World Trade Center tower August 31, 2010 in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

A 70-foot steel column recovered from the World Trade Center rubble is installed at the site of the 9/11 museum on the World Trade Center site September 7, 2010 in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The outline of two squares memorializing the Twin Towers seen next to the rising new One World Trade Center (right) amidst the construction on Ground Zero in lower Manhattan August 24, 2010 in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

A construction worker on the structure of One World Trade Center at ground zero in New York on Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

The Tribute in Light rises behind the construction cranes on One World Trade Center, among the lower New York skyline, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. In an annual tradition, the two bright blue beams of light rise from lower Manhattan in memory of the fallen twin towers. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

The base of one of the two Tribute in Lights installations, being tested from a rooftop near ground zero on Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Jin Lee)

The Tribute in Lights, seen while looking up from inside one of the two installations on the ninth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2010. (REUTERS/Eric Thayer)

The Tribute in Lights illuminates the sky over lower Manhattan on September 11, 2010. (REUTERS/Gary Hershorn)

Looking up towards the Tribute in Lights above lower Manhattan on the ninth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2010. (REUTERS/Eric Thayer)

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