911 Memorial at FBI Academy in Quantico Has Artifacts From All 3 Sites
Friday, November 25th, 2005
The 911 Memorial at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia, has artifacts from all three sites.
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Belen, NM, Features WTC I-Beam With Its Namesake “Bethlehem”
Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
Belen, New Mexico’s, 911 Memorial includes a World Trade Center I-Beam stamped “Bethlehem” which is the English equivalent of the town’s name.
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Morris County 911 Memorial at Parsippany Features Relics from WTC, Flight 93 and Pentagon
Saturday, November 5th, 2005
Morris County, NJ 9/11 Memorialis located on the grounds of the Morris County Fire Fighters and Police Training Academy at 500 West Hanover Avenue in Parsippany, NJ.
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Naperville 911 Memorial Honors Native Son Dan Shanower
Thursday, March 24th, 2005
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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Lake Charles 911 Memorial to Include Pentagon and WTC Artifacts
Thursday, March 24th, 2005The 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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