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Rise of Freedom: Ground Zero Cross Battle
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Legal fight overshadows story, history behind cross
- Duration 2:47
- Date Jul 28, 2011
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-- the rise of freedom now.
Our television cameras have been following the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site for many months.
And we're seeing astounding.
Progress.
Especially -- the -- 9/11 memorial and museum.
Organizers using items that survived the attacks to help tell the story of nine elevenths.
The newest addition arrive this week across.
That a construction workers says He discovered.
Standing amid the wreckage of the Twin Towers.
It was found in the twisted steel and rubble of the World Trade Center.
Many working on the Ohio first searching for survivors and then for victims say they found peace in its existence.
In October 2001.
It was blessed by father Brian Jordan.
I've done here.
You don't live here -- me no doubt can.
The question that was asked that -- was where where is god in the midst of all this hardest atrocity.
And I think the people who saw that crossed.
There wasn't a -- I was in the course there was -- -- presence of god in the midst of that tragedy and with the presidential those people.
Who gave of themselves -- heroic actions trying to stress to people that day and also in the days weeks and months afterwards.
In October of 06 the cross was moved but.
Rather than end up in storage it was placed outside saint Peter's church.
Just a block from the World Trade Center there's a great -- it's been a real loan currently plays for many tourists who could come to visit the violence and site stop here and company flowers or they read sincere prayer and so it's been kind of a religious -- world.
Many people -- -- different -- Just.
Days ago the cross was blessed again and and then lowered into its permanent home the national 9/11 museum which will open next year.
Father Madigan has been at saint Peter's since 1999.
He witnessed lower Manhattan's change -- an instant now he's seeing it changed again.
How this whole tragedy and also this that this could kind of resurgence the -- striking -- that there are young families moving in here and this -- has become a place of life and renewal.
Well a group of -- is suing to keep that cross from staying at the museum they claim it's an unconstitutional.
Mingling of church and state.
The 9/11 memorial organizers say the cross is a symbol of hope and belongs there.
We'll have another story about the rise of freedom next week -- each week on fox report and you can see the entire series at our website foxnews.com.
Slash freedom.
As we were.
