At the 9/11 museum, America remembers only its own

At the 9/11 museum, America remembers only its own Submitted by Azad Essa on Sat, 09/05/2026 - 13:23 New York City's 9/11 museum preserves American trauma while obscuring the attacks’ political context and the millions abroad subjected to the so-called global 'war on terror' The rubble of the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 in New York. 11 September 2026 will mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania (Alexandre Fuchs/AFP) Off The 9/11 Memorial & Museum has preserved almost everything. Seventy feet beneath Ground Zero are burnt-out fire trucks, mangled steel beams, firefighters’ helmets, survivors’ watches, and the final messages left by passengers aboard the hijacked planes.