The National September 11 Memorial, or “Reflecting Absence," is a eulogy built in loving memory of the thousands of American lives that were lost on September 11th, 2001 due to a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993. The construction of the memorial began on March 2006, and the doors to the memorial opened on September 11th, 2011, in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the attack. The memorial is located at the site of the 9/11 tragedy on the former World Trade Center structure and takes up approximately half of the 16-acre ground. What everyone had known as Ground Zero for ten years had finally become an outstanding memorial to honor all the loss and pain endured by the country and its citizens. The design for the memorial was chosen by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation after carefully reviewing over 5,000 entries that were submitted in a cosmopolitan competition held in 2003.…