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Memories live on
Remembering September 11.
The City of New York will mark the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks with a morning ceremony at the World Trade Center site, candlelight vigils in all five boroughs in the evening and ending with the lighting of an eternal flame at sunset. The day will begin with separate processions of bagpipers from the city's uniformed services, leaving from points in all five boroughs and converging on the World Trade Center site, where various officials and victims' families will also gather. The Ground Zero ceremony will conclude at 10:29 a.m., with the ringing of bells across the city. The victims' family members, for the first time, will also have the opportunity to descend the ramp into the deep pit that is all that is left of the World Trade Center. There, they will lay down roses that will later be collected for use in the permanent memorial that will eventually be erected on the site.
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The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Behring Center will open a commemorative exhibition, "September 11: Bearing Witness to History". The 5,000-square-foot exhibition opens on September 11 and closes January 11, 2003. The temporary exhibition will contain artefacts, images and personal stories that bear witness to the events of September 11. The exhibition will share with the public some of the objects the museum has collected to document the events and will give visitors a place to remember and reflect on them. The museum will continue collecting appropriate artefacts for its permanent collections.
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