President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama toured the September 11th memorial museum located at Ground Zero before delivering an opening ceremony. The two, along with the Clintons and a few victims of 9/11, were given a tour by Michael Bloomberg, a New York former mayor.
According to The Hill, the 9/11 museum goes around and under Ground Zero, the site that used to house the World Trade Center. Throughout the museum are displays dedicated to the 3,000 people who died as a result of the terror attack. The museum also contains parts of the towers.
Partly through the tour, Obama stopped at an exhibit of a destroyed fire truck and paid tribute to one of 9/11’s heros, Welles Crowther. Welles Crowther worked at the World Trade Center and was also a volunteer firefighter. He helped lead many of his fellow coworkers to safety from the south tower before dying once the tower collapsed. The 24 year old hero is known as “the man in the red bandana”. one of his red bandana’s resides in the museum, The Associated Press noted.
Crowthers’s mother was one of the victims to visit the museum with Obama today. She spoke at the ceremony and said that she desires that visitors will always be reminded to help each other out every day when they see his bandana.
Obama deemed the museum, “ a sacred place of healing and hope”. , The Associated Press.
The museum will open its doors to the public Wednesday May 21rst.