(11 Sep 2011)
1. Mindy and Gary Berger walk towards camera
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mindy and Gary Berger, Gary lost his only brother, Steve Berger who worked on 86th floor of South Tower for NY State Department of Taxation:
Mindy Berger: "It was a sense of consolement. You felt consoled."
Gary Berger: "It was a little bit of a closure, not a full closure, but a little bit of a closure, just having a place to go with my brother''s name."
Mindy Berger: "And the water was just going in and out in the same way that the lives were, like every day lives, it just had a meaning. As the water was flowing, people''s lives were flowing. It just had that meaning to us."
3. Mid of Hoffman family walking
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gabrielle Hoffman and daughter Madeline Hoffman, Stephen Hoffman was husband/father, worked for financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald which was based on the 101st-105th floors of North Tower:
Gabrielle: "How hard has it been for me Mands, do I cry?"
Madeline: "She cries all the time."
Gabrielle: "Not any more, I''m so much better."
Madeline: "She used to cry every night and I''d be like, Mom, stop crying. Every car ride, like a lot of years ago, she used to cry every car ride. Every night, it was so bad, but she''s a lot better now."
5. Close of picture of victim Kenneth A. Zelman
6. SOUNDBITE: (English): Barry Zelman, lost brother, Kenneth who worked for Oracle Corporation, floor 99 of North Tower:
"It''s moving, I mean it always is. it''s nice to be around family members. That''s one thing I like about the anniversary - the other people who are just like me come here."
7. Zoom in on photographs of victim Joyce Ann Carpento
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Deborah Burton, friend of victim Joyce Ann Carpento, worked for General Telecom on 83rd floor of North Tower:
"It was very difficult building up to it, the days getting here. But I think I was most impressed by the cascading falls, the water and the names. Incredibly beautiful. There is something very peaceful about that and for the first time we were able to come here and it''s not the gut-wrenching horrible feeling because there is something finally really beautiful about it, peacefully. A little bit of closure. We''ve commented all day that we don''t have a gravesite, so having a place where we all touched her name and dragged our fingers across it and left a kiss."
9. Wide of Times Square
10. Wide of Greg Brock and daughter on steps in Times Square
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Greg Brock, visiting New York from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina:
"I work with Time Warner cable in Myrtle Beach, and I was sitting at the desk Wednesday morning and it just hit me, I had to come up here. So I booked my ticket and I called my daughter down in Fort Stewart and I asked her if she wanted to fly up with me. So I flew out of Myrtle beach and she flew out of Savannah (Georgia). It''s America. It affected you, whether it''s an immediate family member or just people you don''t really know."
12. Wide of people sitting on steps in Times Square
13.SOUNDBITE: (English): Nadia Ahmed, tourist visiting from the UK.:
"I''m here quite frequently and this year there''s a much more sober feel about, just about midtown even and you can really tell the difference."
14. Wide of off-duty Connecticut firefighter walking in Times Square
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Steve Pasek, firefighter from Connecticut:
16. Wide of person shooting photo of jumbo television in Times Square
17. Person watching jumbo television in Times Square
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Now, at last, there is a permanent memorial to the victims.
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