CRESCENT SPRINGS, Ohio -- Crescent Springs firefighters drove to New York on Thursday to get a piece of steel from the World Trade Center.City officials said the piece will be part of a memorial in a local park across the street from the fire department. Firefighters carried the 4-foot-long, 200-pound piece of metal that symbolizes brotherhood within their own fire station."You couldn't grasp the whole concept of losing that many firefighters,” said Crescent Springs Fire Department Chief Jeff Wendt. It was the chief's idea to apply for Crescent Springs to get a piece of the WTC. After hundreds of piles of paperwork, including tax documents and letters from judges, Crescent Springs' application was approved."We hope that nobody ever forgets about 9/11. I think it's important that people can touch it, kids can touch it (and) realize (where) it was from. (They can) learn what 9/11 was, instead of it just being a piece of history," Wendt said.There is only one rule for anyone who obtains a piece of the trade center: they can't take it apart or cut it up. The piece should stand on its own, hopefully in time for the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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