See TIME's photo essay "The Challenge of Memorializing 9/11."

See TIME's photo essay "The Challenge of Memorializing 9/11."

 

 

Ground Zero Today

 

The future site of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum is still very much a work in progress. Politics, a shrinking economy, soaring costs and raw emotions have delayed progress on its development.

 

On August 24, workers re-installed the famed "Last Column," the final steel beam to be removed from the original World Trade Center site and a centerpiece to the future Memorial Museum.

 

The Mess at Ground Zero

 

Source: content.time.com

 

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