World's largest Sept. 11 exhibit to open in France

[flashl]

Source: Chicago Tribune

Museum out to show event's global impact

PARIS — On the shores of Normandy where thousands of Americans died in the cataclysm that was D-Day, a museum that aims to be more than a collection of rusting relics is preparing to commemorate another day that changed the world: Sept. 11, 2001.

More than 120 mementos, from building keys to a smashed vehicle, are being shipped from New York to the French city of Caen for the first such exhibition outside the United States—and the largest anywhere on the attack, its roots and aftermath.

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The exhibit, titled "A Global Moment," is expected to open June 6 at the museum, which was built to remember those who died on D-Day in 1944 and in the Battle of Normandy that followed.

Grimaldi said that although the relationship between the French and Americans had been complicated in recent years by post-Sept. 11 politics, museums that try to explain the meaning of war are valuable as a way to discuss peace and shared democratic values.

Chicago Tribune

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-9-11_museum_12apr12,1,7613928.story

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Telling, 'our' greatest moment in recent memory is preserved in another country's 'Worlds Largest 9-11 Exhibit'.

[Kip Humphrey]

1. I wonder if they'll have on exhibit "My Pet Goat"!

[SpiralHawk]

3. "A memorable portrait of moi? Pass the Freedom Fries. Smirk." - Commander AWOL

[Javaman]

2. and our tribute is a hole in the ground almost 7 years later.

what do the French hate our freedom?

[uppityperson]

4. Interesting, thank you. I'll check it out this summer.

and let you know how it is. Caen is a quite interesting place, was practially leveled during the liberation, has some interesting stuff there about the occupation and liberation. Thank you for posting this, will check it out when I visit this summer.

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""What we decided to do in France is a much broader story than focusing just on the events of Sept. 11," he said. "We decided to step back a little and tell more about Al Qaeda itself and profile the 19 terrorists and look at the hours of the day with a timeline and with people involved, all done in greater depth. ... It's a much more all-encompassing narrative."

Profiles of 10 victims and people who helped in the rescue effort will be illustrated by their possessions, either recovered from building debris or donated later to the Albany museum, such as battered shoes belonging to a woman who walked down more than 80 flights of stairs in a tower before it collapsed."

[OKthatsIT]

5. 2 Planes and 3 buildings come down

very professional historic account record there...OH, I'm sorry, I forgot the 9/11 Commission never discussed Building #7 in its report.

[fascisthunter]

6. Invisible Plane Hits Pentagon

I can see it now.