Storytelling with fallen monuments in a building of glass

I spent my last afternoon in DC at the Newseum. It was designed as a living history museum devoted to journalism and the first amendment. It is one a few locations to charge you for entrance, but it is well worth the 20 bucks.
As a former journalist, there is a lot I was fascinated by, but was moved this time by artifacts borne of tragedy. Maybe it's what just happened at Aurora. I dont know. The pieces below moved me. The Holocaust Museum moves me this way, I just never expected the Newseum to.

A section of the Berlin Wall

A handmade newspaper detailing the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

Wreckage from the 9/11 attacks

Wreckage from the World Trade Center

Part of a display on war reporting

Wreckage from the World Trade Center

Cell Phones recovered from ground zero.

Detail from one section of the Berlin Wall.