Rembering 9/11 Five Years Later

Glance over ground zero today and you won`t find much left from what happened 5 years ago. There`s a construction site, barricades, and hundreds of tourists. But it`s not difficult at all to remember the images from that Tuesday morning; like the hundreds of people running away from the towers as the smoke and debris creeps up from behind, or the countless hours emergency crews sifted through the devastation searching for any sign of life. These are the somber memories that continue to bring people to the site like architect student Tony Coleho. He was at the world trade center just days before the attacks taking a tour of the towers. Coleho recalls,"They started showing pictures of people that gave the tour guide and I remembered them since I was there five days before that." For many its a moment in time they`ll never forget. And now five years later seeing the site still brings on a flood of emotions. Ellen Norwack flew her family all the way from the West Coast to see the site. "It`s very heartfelt. Its amazing to know so much destruction occurred to people that didnt deserve this. It`s touching to be able to come here and pay our respects to the lives forever lost on that day." The nearly three thousand names of the lives lost that day are permanently displayed and pictures hang of images frozen in time . As the years pass, new towers are rising. The freedom tower is set to be completed by 2011 and will be the tallest building ever built in the country. Three others are in the works along with a memorial. The site wont be completed until at least 2011.