While the attacks of September 11, 2001 devastated the United States and much of the world, it also served to bring our country together. Other countries also reached out the US in our time of need, proving the resilience of the human race and the extent of human sympathy.
Russia actually gave the United States a gift to memorialize the victims of the 9/11 attacks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The gift was a sculpture called “To the Struggle Against World Terrorism” and is also known as “The Tear of Grief.” It was made by Zurab Tsereteli.
The Tear of Grief is a 100-foot tower of steel coated in bronze. A jagged hole runs through the center of it, and a 40-foot metal teardrop hangs from the top of this hole. The tower’s granite base is etched with the names of those who lost their lives in the September 11th attacks and in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The sculpture stands at the end of the former Military Ocean Terminal in Bayonne, New Jersey. In September 2011, a four-foot section of steel from the World Trade Center was placed adjacent to the monument.