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Rise of Freedom: Lady Liberty

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    Museum planners prominently feature 9-foot-tall replica of iconic statue

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The rise of freedom now our ongoing look at the rebuilding of the World Trade Center tonight lady liberty.

Planners of the 9/11 museum are prominently featuring a nine foot tall version of the American landmark which.

People draped -- -- stirring emotional weeks after the attacks of nine elevenths.

-- I'm right of the war and if you don't play.

You think about it.

These are the faces firefighter Thomas Clinton sees as his firehouse just a block from Times Square.

Fifteen men who left this building bound for the World Trade Center.

And never came back.

Right here we had -- flowers.

Candles it was like a memorial.

And it just grows day by day.

Within 48 hours of the attack.

A fiberglass statue of liberty appeared among the tributes attracting the attention of people passing by.

Everybody just kept putting something.

Something on the side -- it a little note a flag something from where they where they came from.

Over the next three months lady liberty collected upwards of 800 items including victims photographs someone's ring and a note today.

We missed.

All of these were actually originally around -- you.

It's now on display at the 9/11 museums preview site.

-- chief curator -- Ramirez says it represents the memorials that popped up in the communities that came together there was really neighbor.

But residents leave -- districts that Katie became the shrine tenders.

And they were the ones that actually helped place things or will be -- things when it fell off that memorial.

I've been here a long time that.

Right through that day I didn't even know we had a community people walk by -- really know them.

But after that we got to know a lot of people in the news tonight.

That statue will eventually move tonight eleven museum it's kids open next year on the eleventh you remembered for the attacks.

For folks who can't see it in person the museum created an interactive feature on its web site.

That allow you to zoom in see specific objects if you like and -- learn more about the people behind them.

You can get to that website by visiting hours.

At foxnews.com slash freedom.

We'll have another report on the rise of freedom next month.

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