Inside the Megawatt Effort to Mount New York’s Annual 9/11 'Tribute in Light'

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After artists watched the Twin Towers fall, they knew New York needed a way to honor its losses. But they never expected their installation—two beams of light projected into the clouds—to last 25 years.

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