North America - Final Entries
Today I will be visiting two sites in North America. These sites include the Grand Canyon located in Arizona, United States as well as the 9/11 memorial located in New York.
Site 1 – The first site I visited was the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is up to 6,000 feet deep and was carved over millions of years by the Colorado River that flows through its base. The canyon's floor features a diverse landscape, with dried-up desert regions that can reach 120 degrees Fahrenheit and woods with temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit. The spot's massive size and layers of pinkish, golden, and orange rock have earned it significant status around the world over the years. Elk, bison, desert bighorn sheep, and tassel-eared Kaibab squirrels are among the creatures that live in and around the massive canyon. For at least 12,000 years, Native Americans have lived in and around the Grand Canyon. However, when it was declared as a national park in 1919, Native Americans were forced to abandon significant portions of their ancestral lands. Eleven Native American tribes, including the Havasupai and Navajo, now live just beyond the park's boundaries. Tourists come to explore the canyon paths, ride mules along the ridges, and climb the steep rocks, and some tribe members work as guides for them.
Site 2 – The second site I visited was the 9/11 memorial. The 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York City has pools in each of the areas where the twin buildings formerly stood, with bronze panels carved with the names of all the 9/11 fatalities from each tower. Each of the 184 benches at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial is named after a victim of the Virginia attack. The Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania's Tower of Voices has 40 wind chimes to remember the plane's passengers and crew members. The Memorial's centerpieces are the two pools, each over an acre in size, that sit in the former North and South Towers' foundations. The pools feature North America's greatest constructed waterfalls, each plunging 30 feet into a square pool. Each pool's water then drops another 20 feet, disappearing into a smaller, center hole. The Memorial plaza's southwestern corner is dedicated to all those who have been injured or killed as a result of toxic exposure in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. First responders and recovery workers from all three sites, as well as relief workers and volunteers, World Trade Center survivors, and residents, students, and workers from lower Manhattan, including those who cleaned buildings near Ground Zero, make up this population.
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