Today is an important anniversary that goes unremembered. 26 February 1993 - World Trade Center is bombed
At 12:18 p.m., a terrorist bomb explodes in a parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City, leaving a massive, multi-story crater and causing the collapse of several steel-reinforced concrete floors in the vicinity of the blast.
Although the terrorist bomb failed to critically damage the main structure of the skyscrapers, six people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured.
There was a fountain commemorating the 1993 attack at The World Trade Center, but it was obliterated in the 2001 attack.
To the best of my knowledge, which is not extensive in this case, the only memorial that includes the victims of the 93 attack is The Teardrop Memorial.
Officially it is To the Struggle Against World Terrorism, ... but is is usually known as The Teardrop Memorial. Sometimes, though less often, it is called the Tear of Grief. (Click the image for a better view.)
The names of the victims of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center as well as the names of those who died in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center are engraved around the plinth.
It stands in Bayonne, New Jersey.
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