講解
Today's key word is Memorial
Memorial 紀念，紀念堂，紀念碑

Something that is established to remind people of a person or an event.

Here is an example:
We visited the Thomas Jefferson Memorial.
我們參觀了托馬斯.杰斐遜紀念堂。

今天要說的這個故事，發生在2001年的一個早晨，Adriane wasn't feeling well that morning. She made a phone call at around 7am that day while she was on her way to work. Adriane 本可以請病假休息一天的。

But she said on the phone that she was going to save a sick day（病假）for Halloween（萬圣節）. 城市的另一邊住著Jimmy Jimmy and Gina were engaged（訂婚了）.They were going to be married（結婚）. He was a fireman（消防隊員）. He had just graduated（畢業）. He had been in the job for just six weeks. Before that he was a paramedic（傘兵軍醫，護理人員）.

He loved helping and rescuing people （救人）那天晚些時候 A couple of hours later, Two airplanes were hijacked（劫持）by terrorists（恐怖分子） and flew into the buildings where they were working. That day was Sep. 11th.

那就是2001年9月11日早晨，19名劫機者控制了四架民航客機。上午8:46，飛機撞向了世貿中心北座大樓。Two planes were crashed into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center（世貿中心）complex in New York City. Adriane, she was on the 101st floor of the building that day. Jimmy was a fireman. Eearly 3000 innocent people lost their lives that day.

上周我去了美國旅行，I went to see the 911 memorial pool. It's opened on the 10th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center. It is a feat of engineering due to the powerful machinery that powers the site's signature waterfalls.這期節目的一些圖片是我拍的一些911紀念池實景照片。Actually the pools are set in the footprints of the Twin Towers.

There aren't any fountains this large in one place anywhere else in the country.專門設計的供熱系統讓這里的水永不結冰，平常會有來自各地的人們到這里紀念逝去的生命。Family members gather at the memorial; some pin flowers or origami（紙鶴） on the victims' names. 有一個對水池的意義很美好的解釋：Water comes from the pool, and then it falls into the huge black hole. But the whole system is circulatory（循環的）. The terrorists destroyed（摧毀） the buildings, but they cannot destroy the endless talent（人才）that emerges（出現）repeatedly（不斷地）. And the children of the victims will grow up. And hope never dies.

有一個對水池的意義很美好的解釋：Water comes from the pool, and then it falls into the huge black hole. But the whole system is circulatory（循環的）. The terrorists destroyed（摧毀） the buildings, but they cannot destroy the endless talent（人才）that emerges（出現）repeatedly（不斷地）. And the children of the victims will grow up. And hope never dies.

這里有一些親人們緬懷遇難者的文字：“He was very outgoing, he loved his friends and he loved his job. He worked very hard, but played hard too. I didn't realize how many lives he's touched. Even today I'm hearing new stories and I'm reminded of the way he touched people. He was called to come and help, he went back in a second time ...” - Irene Lesiw for JAMES N. PAPPAGEORGE, FIREMAN“Joe was 22, and a graduate of Boston College. He had only been working for six weeks; he was training to be a trader. He was at the south tower on the 89th floor. He was so happy he got the job.”

The water pool memorial 就像一個永遠的傷口。是一個紀念，是一種記憶。 一觸就痛。但它同時也是不能忘卻的紀念。給人們慰藉，給人們力量前行。當我們擁有時，就好好相待。 沒有人知道明天會發生什么，或者下一秒會發生什么。時間如白駒過隙，一生短暫。能擁抱時，就不要分離。能牽手時，就溫柔對待。當分別時，就伴以前行。Come what may. Till death do us part. Carpe diem.