A 60-mile caravan helped bring World Trade Center relics to downtown Indianapolis Saturday afternoon to be used as a centerpiece in a 9/11 memorial.
Escorted by state police and several thousand motorcycle riders, two big steel beams salvaged from the wreckage of the twin towers were later viewed and touched by those who vowed to never forget what happened on September 11, 2001.
A ceremony was held on the steps of the Indiana War Memorial to mark the arrival of beams. Greg Hess, the Indianapolis firefighter and paramedic who spearheaded the effort to get the relics, called the voyage from New York City to Indianapolis incredibly moving.
"I've cried a couple of times, and that's ok," Hess said. "They're tears from New York, and to bring those pieces of history back, it's been well worth it.
The wreckage that once represented death and destruction will be turned into a memorial next to the downtown canal in the 400 block of West Ohio Street.
It will take $300,000 to fund the project, and you can donate by logging onto www.project911indianapolis.org.
Groundbreaking is scheduled for May with an anticipated completion date of September 11 -- the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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