As we mark the 14th anniversary of one of the USA’s most traumatic events of the post-World-War-II period, the Islamic terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it’s also the first such anniversary in which the Freedom Tower, the skyscraper that replaced those doomed Twin Towers is open to the public.

I made it a mission to visit this remarkable new skyscraper (whose official name is One World Trade Center) on my last return visit to New York City, as someone who witnessed in disbelieving horror the fall of Tower One from the rooftop of my apartment building that morning.  I felt I needed to experience for myself the remarkable structure in lower Manhattan that was built over the course of a difficult decade and opened to the public in November 2014, a breathtaking tribute to memory of the nearly 3,000 victims of those monstrous attacks of 9/11, and the indomitable will to rebuild both physically and emotionally... keep reading