The incredible way the names of victims are arranged at the 9/11 Memorial pools: The grand custom for memorials is to list the names of those honoured in some sort of ordered fashion — typically, alphabetically, and occasionally by birth date.
But at the 9/11 Memorial, a lot of thought has gone into the arrangement of what would seem a random listing of nearly 3,000 names. The names are arranged in a much more meaningful, emotionally charged and incredibly complicated way.
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But at the 9/11 Memorial, a lot of thought has gone into the arrangement of what would seem a random listing of nearly 3,000 names. The names are arranged in a much more meaningful, emotionally charged and incredibly complicated way.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2035887/GROUND-ZERO-MEMORIAL-Victims-names-arranged-meaningful-adjacencies.html#ixzz1XeD646fG