Looking to the future

The Herald’s invitation to the WTC Tribute Center came from Theresa Cove, a Rockville Centre 9/11 family member who is active as a support docent at the center. She learned about it from a friend in town whose cousin lost her firefighter husband and became one of the original volunteers. After checking it out, Cove decided to participate in center’s December 2009 volunteer training

program.

Cove says her involvement (she participates in walking tours about twice a month) helps her honor and memorialize her husband Jim, who was a senior vice president at Aon, as well as the others who perished on Sept. 11. It has been a way for her to work through her own grief and understand the grief of others similarly affected. She also believes her work at the center helps in the acceptance of the new World Trade Center and is proof of the resiliency of the human spirit.

In addition to her involvement with the center, Cove has become a proponent of incorporating material about the terrorist attacks and their aftermath into school curricula.

With this, the 10th anniversary of the fateful events of Sept. 11, Cove says she’s seen many more people willing to revisit and reconnect with the World Trade Center site. She makes herself available to anyone who might be interested in taking the center’s WTC walking tour.

To learn more about the World Trade

Center Tribute Center and its programs,

visit www.tributewtc.org.