Old Virginia Brick’s 9/11 flagpole memorialin Salem is built using 36-foot steel girders from between the 33rd and 36th floors of Tower One. The flagpole is topped with a 24-carat gold-plated eagle. Both the flagpole’s pedestal and the plaza were built using Old Virginia Brick.
The Freedom Flame Memorial in Rancho Cucamonga is to incorporate 33 tons of WTC columns and a destroyed FDNY Ladder 152 truck. The steel was transported across the country in a convoy in the summer of 2002 in an what became an event at several state capitols. It was also paraded down the Las Vegas Strip past the New York New York Casino.
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A Schenectady Daily Gazette article notes a $3 Million “Upstate 9/11 Memorial Park” would be located on one acre between the Western Gateway Bridge and the Mohawk River, off the eastbound exit into Schenectady County Community College. The site is jointly owned by Schenectady County, the state Canal Authority and the state Department of Transportation.
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USA Today has an excellent article by Rick Hampson in its May 22, 2003, issue about the national memorials and wondering whether they will last.
The Los Angeles Times in its April 2, 2003, issue has an excellent article on the memorials. It is reprinted on the St. Luke Orthodox site.
PBS has an excellent article on national memorials.
The Boy Scouts dedicated a memorial across from the Fountain Valley Civic Center. It was highlighted in a USA Today Article. The plaque contains these words: “They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. And in the morning, we shall remember them.” Laurence Binyon, 1914
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Oak Ridge High School has a memorial consisting of two 10 foot beams and was dedicated in 2002. This was a special project of high school history teacher and Student Council adviser Ken Senter. In addition, Oak Ridge welding students hope to send 50 pieces to all state capitols. Although from their website it would appear that only Wyoming has accepted one.
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The Commander Dan Shanower/ September 11 Memorial is located along the Riverwalk adjacent to the Naperville Municipal Center, 400 S. Eagle Street. It is dedicated to Commander Shanower, a Naperville native who died in the attack on the Pentagon, and the other 3,000 casualties of 9/11. Created with privately raised funds on land provided by the city of Naperville, the memorial features a sculpture with a beam from the World Trade Center, fragments from the Pentagon and granite from the Pennsylvania region where Flight 93 crashed after passengers rose against the hijackers. A wall of faces symbolizing the 9/11 casualties serves as a backdrop for the memorial. It was dedicated on September 11, 2003. The memorial includes 48-foot long Wall of Faces, landscaped garden, an eternal flame, a flagpole.
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The City of Lake Charles, Louisiana, is still working on plans for a 911 memorial. It has two steel beams from the site of the World Trade Center and a piece of limestone from the Pentagon. The beams stand 12-feet high and weigh approximately 2,000 pounds each. The limestone measures 3-feet long by 6-feet wide, and is 6-inches thick. It weighs approximately 700 pounds.
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North Hollywood Park has a stone memorial surrounded by trees commemorating the 78 Californians who perished on 9/11. It was dedicated in 2002. The trees were handled by the Hollywood Beautification Team.
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The Blake School in Duluth built a memorial stadium in 2002 in honor of Gordy Aamoth, Jr., who was killed in the attack. The south of the stadium is focused around “Spirit Rock,” a monumental stone split by a piece of structural steel that was once a part of the south tower of the World Trade Center where Gordy worked. The four-and-a-half-foot, 500-pound I-beam is a gift from New York City to the Aamoth family. Paving stones, equal in number to those who died in this tragedy, spiral out from “Spirit Rock” to create the plaza.
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Danbury’s 911 Memorial consists of a 12-foot glass tower sits on a Connecticut granite pentagon base, surrounded by lights to illuminate it at night. Etched in the 12-foot tower will be the names of all Connecticut’s deceased, while names of Danbury’s deceased will be prominently displayed in the center of the tower. It was dedicated in September 2004. It is located at South Elmwood Park on Main Street in Danbury.
Staten Island dedicated its Wings 911 Memorial designed by Masayuki Sono of Kobe, Japan, in 2004 on the St. George Waterfront. It comprises two 40-foot postcards, stretching out like wings to the heavens. Plaques honoring 252 of the 271 borough residents and former Islanders killed in the attacks and in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing line the inner sides of the structures. Each plaque, accompanied by a granite facial profile, includes the victim’s name, occupation and date of birth. There are 294 panels in all. The empty panels will be filled as more families give their consent to memorializing their loved ones, or as other Staten Island victims are identified in the future. The memorial cost $2 Million.
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I started 911memorials.org because I thought somebody should try to chronical the various memorials and I saw no web site undertaking that. The outpouring was amazing after 911. This is admittedly a taunting task so there’s no formal road map on how to do this. Do you just include memorials with artifacts? Memorials with budgets in excess of a certain amount? Temporary memorials? My list is based more or less on the intention for the memorial to be permanent. It’s a very daunting task and I probably miss some sites. If you would like include a memorial or have pictures of a memorial or know of a website, drop me a line. I’ve had to turn off comments on this blog because it was getting hundreds of spam messages a day.
Voicesofsept11.org also is making the attempt. It is worth a visit also.
FLOW is to build Hoboken’s 911 Memorial on Pier A. Their design includes an island that extends off the northeast corner of the pier. The island would be moored and connected to Pier A by a small foot bridge. A large circular wind sculpture made of wire mesh would move with the breezes that blow down the Hudson.
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