NYC - FiDi: 9/11 Memorial Visitor Center - Recovered Artifacts
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This recovered wallet, identification card, and ring belonged to Robert Joseph Gschaar. Robert Gschaar (March 8, 1946 - September 11, 2011) presented a bill to Myrta Alvarado when he asked her to marry him. Describing their romance as a second chance for two people who had been married before, he placed a symbolic bill in his own wallet. On September 11, 2011, Robert was on the 92nd floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center where he had recently begun a new job as an insurance underwriter at Aon Corporation. He spoke with Myrta on the telephone after the first plane hit and said he was evacuating, and would call her back later. She never heard from him again. When the NYPD's World Trade Center Property Recovery Unit notified Myrta that Robert's wallet had been found, Myrta felt the bill inside yielded the proof she needed to accept her husband's death.
The 9/11 Memorial Visitor Center, located at 90 West Street near the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center Site allows visitors an opportunity to share their own 9/11 memories and learn about the Memorial and Museum through genuine artifacts and rotating exhibits.
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum, located on 6-acres of the World Trade Center site, is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the 2,983 men, women and children killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
ru's card ~ open {notes}
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ru's birthday card ~ closed | open
End of an Era.
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(worst ID photo ever)
Nostalgia
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This is me. Then. Boy was I ever a troublemaker.
Probably 4th or 5th grade. B. P. Indian Public School.
Smile!
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Soldiers recruited for the Givati Brigade and Field Intelligence Units take their military ID photos. The soldiers went through the induction procedure, which includes giving detailed information, having their photo taken, receiving equipment and more. The soldiers will go through a training course, making them the first combat recruits after the 2nd Lebanon War.
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