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Article: Photographer opens 9-11 museum to help people connect
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- Daily Breeze
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- August 27, 2005
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NEW YORK -- Days before the fourth anniversary of the 2001
attacks, a photographer is offering intimate images of death and love
inside ground zero at a new museum that brings you nose-to-nose with
the smoldering pit.
"If people want to come past the security gates and see what our
world was like down in the hole, this is as close as they can come to
it," said Gary Marlon Suson, the official ground zero photographer
for the Uniformed Firefighters Association, the city firefighters'
main union.
Suson spent eight months at the site with recovery workers
searching for the remains of the 2,749 people who died on a sunny
September morning, including 343 firefighters. His time in "The Pit"
comes ...