This museum is located in the exact spot where the twin towers used to stand in New York City, New York.
Psychological:
Brooke narrates you through the 9/11 museum and all the emotions she feels as walking through the museum herself. She does a really good job changing her voice when she is talking about the lives that were taken and the stories they left behind. The pauses shes uses really allows the listener to picture the museum in their head and have the thoughts and feelings they would as if they were physically in the museum themselves.
Social:
Brooke is playing a tourist. She does an amazing job at narrating her way through the museum, like I mentioned before, and allows the listener to feel as if they were walking through the museum right there with her. She also gives the listener a small audio of the actual recordings from the day 9/11 actually went down. This was one of the most heartbreaking moments, it literally takes you back to the day it happened and puts you in the shoes of the people that were actually there and physically/emotionally affected by it.
Brooke wanted the listeners to feel her experience of going through the museum now vs. what it's going to be like in the future. Like she mentioned, though people were solemn, she only noticed a few tears. Years from now it's going to be another generation that's walking through it, and it's just going to be more "U.S. History" to them, or like Brooke said, "another catastrophe." That was our catastrophe. That happened to us, and it will forever change the lives of those who were living during the time it happened.
Culture:
Brooke stops and talks to another visitor about her feelings of having her cousin's name and story be in a museum, meaning forever and ever. The visitor expresses that it actually 'brings it more to home.' That she had family that worked there, and almost seemed honored.
The emotions there I'm sure are overwhelming. I'm praying that one day I have the opportunity to visit this memorial and experience it for myself, but for now, I can only relate my feelings to the ones I had while visiting the Pearl Harbor memorial.
The Pearl Harbor memorial was so well put together and includes so much detail, I, myself truly felt like I was apart of it as I read through each of the stories. I also remember seeing all the Japanese people there and without even knowing them personally, I couldn't help but judge them. It was terrible. I remember thinking "what the heck are you even doing here. You're the ones who did this to us." Such a terrible, judgmental thought, I know, but I couldn't help myself. Later that day as I was talking with some girls about a teammate who was actually Japanese and I had completely forgotten until later, we started to wonder what her thoughts were about it. She was already quiet as it is, so none of us dared ask her, but to this day, I'm still curious, what do they attend this memorial for? I don't personally feel like the museum was made for them to come remember all the lives they took when they bombed us, and how it effected our country as a whole, so what are they doing there? Are there Afghans that visit the trade center memorial? Maybe one day I'll get the courage to ask, but not today.
Temporal Context:
Fortunately people are taking well to the museum, giving it the attention it deserves and keeping in mind the history and emotions it reserves. Social Media I think does a good job representing it's history and importance as well. Of course, in later years, who knows what people will be saying about it, who will be visiting it, or what social media will do with it, but only time will tell!
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