California State Fair Memorial is Biggest in Country
The California State Fair Memorial Plaza in Sacramento is the biggest 911 memorial in the country outside of the directly hit areas.
The Memorial Plaza currently features the steel I-Beam, a 62.5 ton piece of wreckage from “Ground Zero” at New York City’s World Trade Center. The 50-foot-tall Carillon Bell Tower which has 23 “Singing Bells” which play “America the Beautiful” and “Let Freedom Ring.” The Plaza is located near the Main Gate of the fairgrounds and next to Expo Center Building. The exhibit has a border of flags, which includes the United States, the State of California, the City of New York, the Fire Department of New York, the New York Police Department, the New York/New Jersey Port Authority, and the Department of Emergency Management. Related to New York Place are Reflection Towers, representing two imposing symbolic towers, completely covered on each of four sides with reflective dark green glass to
reflect the Memorial Plaza.
Pennsylvania Place, remains to be designated, but is expected to return to California only the dirt from the surrounding aircraft crash site.
The Foundation’s Pentagon exhibit, Washington Place includes three one-ton pieces of limestone wreckage taken from the Pentagon will be carved and list the names of all the victims .
Near the center, the Foundation will has granite ball with the names of all 3071 victims etched into the granite. The ball floats and turns on a thin film of pressured water which causes the ball to gently spin and allows the public to literally touch the ball and stop the spin to see the
names of those who died on September 11, 2001.
For more information, please contact:
Larry Davis
1600 Exposition Blvd.
Sacramento, CA, 95815
(707) 938-3894 phone
(909) 830-6685 cell
(909) 824-2991 fax
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