9/11 museum shows SEAL's shirt from bin Laden raid

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By JENNIFER PELTZ

NEW YORK (AP) — The shirt a Navy SEAL wore in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and a special coin given to a CIA officer who played a key role in finding him are being displayed at the Sept. 11 museum, adding potent symbols of the terrorist attacks' aftermath days before their anniversary.

The items are going on view Sunday at the ground zero museum, where leaders see them as an important and moving addition to a collection that often uses personal artifacts to explore the events and impact of 9/11.

"The death of Osama bin Laden is a huge part of the history, and we have an absolute obligation to tell it," National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum President Joe Daniels said Saturday. The display, he said, "allows millions of visitors the chance to recognize the extraordinary bravery of the men and women who sacrifice so much for this country at home and abroad."

The shirt and coin will join an existing display with a brick from the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where the terrorist at the helm of the attacks was killed.

FULL story at link.



In this Sept. 5, 2014 photo provided by the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, a brick from the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where bin Laden was captured and killed, is shown behind a glass case at the museum in New York. The brick, a special coin given to a CIA operative who played a key role in finding bin Laden, and a fatigue shirt worn by a U.S. Navy SEAL in the raid where he was killed, are part of a new exhibit that will be introduced at the museum on Sunday, Sept. 7. (AP Photo/National September 11 Memorial and Museum, Jin Lee)


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[underpants]

1. I see the media linking the successful operation on OBL back to W

Sorry to be sceptical but the media has already blurred the line between W and Obama.

[heaven05]

2. the media snakes

can do what they must. There are some people out here who think for themselves without the media pundits hate and rhetoric. The idiots who believe them are always going to be those who vote against their own interests just to be..............

[PSPS]

3. I'll bet they're sorry they can't get Osama's bloody head to put on a stick.

It sounds like the only thing missing so far are private viewing rooms where "patrons" can discreetly drop their pants. However, it's likely I've just not heard about that yet.

[Iamthetruth]

8. I'm curious

What do you have against the memorial?

[WilliamPitt]

9. ...and why do you hate America?

Lather rinse repeat

[Iamthetruth]

12. I follow you post

But I think your off. I visited the memorial with my family a few weeks ago. It's disturbing, moving and down right sad. Listening to the recordings of the people on the higher floors calling their loved ones will tear you apart. Listening to the fireman talk about what the banging sound above them was shocking and disturbing.

It's a memorial to those who died and a memorial about the bravery of those who tried to save people. Fact is, there was a group who carried this act out and their story is told as well, I fail to see a problem.

[RufusTFirefly]

4. Great. Now all they need is a Shroud of Turin

Am I the only one who detects a creepy, quasi-religious tone to this whole thing?

[frylock]

7. No, you're not the only one

[Tom Ripley]

11. No, you're not

[another_liberal]

5. Trophies of the "War on Terror"? Really?

Has this all been a big, bloody football game, after which one tears down the goal posts and keeps a piece "for old times' sake."

Disturbing, to say the least.

[rug]

6. Why don't they just stuff bin Laden's head and shine a light on it.

Potent symbol my ass.

[Tom Ripley]

10. Do they sell griefsicles at the concession stand ?