By Julie Shapiro
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
LOWER MANHATTAN — A new website offers a peek into the heart of the 9/11 memorial.
The online 9/11 Memorial Guide, which launched this week, shows exactly where the name of each attack victim will be inscribed on the bronze parapets surrounding the waterfalls in the original Twin Towers footprints.
The names are grouped based on where the victim was killed, and the memorial foundation honored hundreds of requests from victims' family members to place names of friends and coworkers close together.
"The arrangement of the names, forever etched in bronze, expresses the bonds that could not be broken by the murderous attacks of that day," 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels said in a statement. "The arrangement of the names reflects the relationships and the strong bonds that 2,982 innocent people shared in life and death."
Abigail Ross Goodman requested that the name of her father, Richard Barry Ross, be etched next to that of her best friend, Stacey Leigh Sanders. Sanders was working on the 96th floor of the North Tower when American Airlines Flight 11, on which Ross was a passenger, slammed into it.
"It is heartbreaking and beautiful to think of them together that way, and it will be so special to be able to reflect on them so closely" Goodman said in a statement.
The new Memorial Guide website allows people to search the memorial for a specific name or company, or to virtually scroll through the bronze panels. People can click on each name to pull up a photograph and basic information about the victims, including their birthday and where they were killed.
The memorial will include the names of all those killed on 9/11 — including those who died at the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon and in the Flight 93 crash — as well as those killed in the World Trade Center bombing on Feb. 26, 1993.
The memorial is scheduled to open on the 10th anniversary of the attacks this fall.
