9/11

More than two decades after a tiny Greek Orthodox church in lower Manhattan was destroyed by the falling south tower of the World Trade Center, that church’s far grander replacement opened to the public this week in an elevated park overlooking the rebuilt trade center’s memorial plaza.

A portrait has filled the last vacancy on the photo wall at the national Sept. 11 memorial, concluding the almost 16-year project to memorialize the hundreds killed in the 2001 terrorist attacks.

An Arlington, Virginia, family recently met someone who has an indelible connection to their deceased father that was forged in the chaos and smoking debris at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.