It was easy to locate the exhibit in the National September 11 Memorial Museum featuring pictures of her son, but Mary Novotny had a harder time finding what she was really looking for when she visited the newly opened center.
"I don't want the history of Sept. 11 whitewashed," the New City resident said. "I don't want it softened. I want future generations to know what happened that day."
She was referring to a debate over a short documentary created for the museum about al-Qaida, which is narrated by NBC anchor Brian Williams.
Many family members, including Novotny, whose 33-year-old son, Brian, a bond trader for Cantor Fitzgerald, was killed in the North Tower, argued that the story of the attacks could not be told without an explanation of who carried them out and why. No one believes all Muslims support terrorism, she said.
"I needed to hear the words 'al-Qaida' and 'jihad' and 'Bin Laden,' and 'Islamic terrorists,'" she said. "I would have been very disappointed if that film wasn't included."
She found the film near the end of her tour, where it can be viewed from a small bench.
"History was told in truth," she said. "It wasn't softened."
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