Six years ago, the 9-11 (pronounced as “nine eleven”) tragedy took place where two airliners were crashed into the two twin towers of World Trade Center in New York City. Approximately 3,000 lives were lost during the said catastrophe. This includes 2,750 at the World Trade Center site.

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum launched a grassroots effort to help build an eternal tribute to honor the innocent lives lost in the attacks of September 11, 2001 and preserve the memory of those events for future generations. The Memorial & Museum have created a traveling exhibition to pay tribute to those who were killed on September 11 as well as to support the heroic first responders whose selfless acts saved thousands.

In commemorating of its sixth year anniversary, the heroic firefighters who helped rescue New Yorkers on Sept. 11 — and later, recovered the dead — read victims’ names for the first time Tuesday at the sixth anniversary ceremony.

Reference:
http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=7017
www.national911memorial.org