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Echoes of the dead - Touching mementos placed at 9/11 memorial

October 3, 2011

Flight attendants left their wings. A visitor left a bag of M&M's. And there are enough flowers on the ground to fill a botanical garden. But no one at the new World Trade Center memorial expected the volume of personal notes left behind by friends and families. In just three weeks, the memorial to victims of 9/11 has become a keeper of mementos, a collection of creative tributes left by heartsick survivors still desperate for the slightest connection.

"We absolutely anticipated that people would feel compelled to leave tributes," said Alice Greenwald, director of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. "What you don't know is what people will bring or how they will place it. Some things I find extraordinarily touching."

For Welles Remy Crowther, 24, an equities trader and volunteer firefighter from Rockland County who died in the south tower, visitors have been leaving red bandannas. Survivors said Crowther tied a red bandanna around his face and helped nearly 20 people to safety. Crowther had carried that red bandanna since childhood. It was a gift from his father...


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