[ti:9/11 Artifacts Share ‘Pieces of Truth’ in Victims’ Stories] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.04]For almost six years, Andrea Haberman's burned wallet [00:05.84]lay mostly untouched at her parents' home [00:10.44]in the American state of Wisconsin. [00:15.04]It was placed alongside some of her other personal belongings [00:20.20]– her burned cellphone, eyeglasses and house keys. [00:25.40]Those few objects were all that remained of a young life [00:30.60]that ended when a hijacked airplane struck the North Tower [00:35.36]of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. [00:41.32]Haberman was 25 years old and about to be married. [00:46.60]She was on a business trip from Chicago. [00:50.96]It was her first visit to New York City. [00:55.32]For Haberman's family, the belongings she had with her that day [01:00.32]are a reminder of their great sadness. [01:04.76]"These are not the happy things you want to remember someone by," [01:09.24]said her father, Gordon Haberman. [01:13.12]To ease their pain, the family gave the items [01:17.28]to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. [01:21.52]The thousands of personal artifacts [01:24.40]tell the story of the lives lost on that day. [01:30.20]Some are shown at the 9/11 museum. [01:34.20]Others are shown at other museums around the country. [01:40.32]"Each person who makes up part of that tally [01:43.80]was an individual who lived a life," said Jan Ramirez. [01:49.28]She is the museum's chief curator and director of collections. [01:55.76]"We knew that families — the people [01:58.56]that have lost a loved one that day [02:01.64]— were going to need to have a place, have a way, [02:05.08]to remember the person that never came home from work, [02:08.80]that never came home from a flight," Ramirez added. [02:14.32]Many of those personal items were found in the ruins [02:18.16]of what was once the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center. [02:22.88]Other items were donated by survivors [02:27.28]or by the families of those who died. [02:31.40]A collection of woodworking tools represents Sean Rooney, [02:36.32]a vice president at Aon Corp. [02:39.80]He died in the South Tower. [02:43.04]Woodworking was his hobby. [02:46.88]Rooney called his wife, Beverly Eckert, [02:49.76]at their home in Stamford, Connecticut, [02:52.64]after being trapped by fire and smoke on the 105th floor. [02:59.60]He spent his last minutes alive [03:02.48]talking about their life together. [03:05.28]He said "I love you" to his wife as he fought to breathe. [03:11.28]His body was never found. [03:14.76]Beverly died eight years later in a plane crash [03:18.60]while traveling to Buffalo, New York, [03:21.32]to award a scholarship in the name of her husband. [03:26.48]Before she died, she had set aside the woodworking tools. [03:31.64]Robert Chin's hobby was softball, a sport he loved. [03:36.28]He played for his employer Fiduciary Trust International. [03:42.92]After his first hit, his coworkers [03:46.12]all signed the ball and gave it to him. [03:50.16]Many of those coworkers also died on 9/11. [03:54.64]Chin's family gave the ball to the museum. [03:59.48]Not all artifacts included in the collection represent someone who died. [04:05.96]Some are from those who survived the terrorist attacks. [04:11.00]Linda Raisch-Lopez gave the museum [04:14.16]the blood-covered shoes she was wearing that day. [04:18.16]She walked down from the 97th floor [04:21.88]without shoes to move more quickly, cutting her feet. [04:26.76]She later put the shoes back on to run away from the area. [04:33.08]Only a small part of the museum's collection of artifacts [04:37.20]can be shown at one time; [04:39.88]there are simply too many objects. [04:43.72]When they are not on display, [04:46.36]the artifacts are stored in buildings in New York and New Jersey. [04:52.72]Ramirez called the artifacts "palpable pieces of truth." [04:58.60]She added that the collection brings purpose [05:01.64]to what she does and will continue to do. [05:06.44]I'm Caty Weaver. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM