Visiting the World Trade Memorial site created a roller coaster of emotions. The memorial itself exhibits a respectful display of names and falling water creating a peaceful environment for group or personal reflection. Inside the museum provided a much different experience. I found the historical and architectural backgrounds of the Two Towers to be very informational and fascinating considering that they were at the time, modern feats in engineering. It wasn’t until I reached the lower level where my emotions began to collide. Seeing images, belongings, and biographies of all the people lost during the attacks was overwhelming, upsetting, and a bit aggravating. I am still processing the information and trying to decide whether or not the display and possibly fictional stories were respectful or insulting to the victims, not to say that each individual is not important. In fact some of the stories were incredibly touching and over all I felt that reading the short biographies was the only way I could fathom the amount of people that lost their lives. The part I found to be the most unnecessary part of the whole museum were objects such as firetrucks and ambulances kept on display as if they were movie props. Over all, I learned a lot from the exhibit and was able to experience the event from a different perspective, and from a different age, helping me form my own opinions. -MAX