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WTC memorial scheduled to open in 2009: stakeholders and families continue to clash.(9/11: 5 YEARS LATER)(World Trade Center Memorial Foundation)

Non-profit Times, The, September, 2006 by Causer, Craig

The horrific images of September 11, 2001 remain seared into the minds of Americans. Since the Twin Towers were toppled by a terrorist attack, the talk has been of healing and paying proper respect to those who lost their lives on that day.

Part of that healing process has been the planning of a World Trade Center Memorial. After much acrimony, analysis, debate and planning, work has begun on the memorial, which is scheduled to open on September 11, 2009.

It took nearly five years for the construction to begin, with families of the victims and the public wondering what took so long.

"The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation (WTCMF) was in a position of taking the designs that were selected as a part of the master design competition and then...

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