The 9-11 sculpture project entitled “The Gates” consists of two gates — a 23 foot and 53 foot tall memorial made with 16 tons of WTC steel obtained from the New Jersey salvage yard.
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A NYC Fire Department Press release says an 11-foot, 3,000 pound section of steel from the north tower of the World Trade Center. The beam and a plaque commemorating it will be placed next to a similar memorial dedicated to the 241 US Marines killed in the terrorist bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983. The beam was transported by a convoy including a fire truck marked 343 for the 343 firefighters killed at the WTC was transported on July 2003.
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Hickory is reported to have the first public memorial.