A shirt worn by a member of the Navy SEAL team during the clandestine raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011 went on show in New York on Sunday.
The garment is part of an exhibition at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum portraying the decade-long hunt to find the Al-Qaeda mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks.
The black and brown uniform shirt worn by the anonymous Team Six member during the daring raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad has a US flag patch on the sleeve.
But the decision to display the SEAL shirt has been criticized.
Newsweek said the exhibition was out of place, "short-circuiting the grief that rightly haunts these galleries," a tribute to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on New York and Washington.
"The good guys won, it says triumphantly... But that's cheap closure, and it seems crass to parade the evidence of our victory in what should be a space for somber, silent thought and prayer," it wrote in an article.
The museum defended the move.
"This exhibit not only captures a seminal moment in American history, it also allows millions of visitors the chance to recognize the extraordinary bravery of the men and women who sacrifice so much for this country," 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels said.
The exhibition also includes a "challenge coin" donated by "Maya," the alias for the CIA operative who pursued the Al-Qaeda leader, and a brick recovered from the bin Laden compound.
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