Angola gets ready for 9/11 beam, 15,000 motorcycles

ANGOLA, Ind. (WANE) - Over 15,000 motorcyclists are expected to gather in Angola on July 1 as a memorial beam from the World Trade Center travels through the area.

An Angola Fire Department spokesman said the 8-foot beam will be at the old Scott's parking lot from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. All county public safety agencies have been invited to have a unit on display.

The following day, Saturday, July 2, beginning at 6:30 a.m., bikers will gather at the old Scott’s parking lot to get ready to escort the beam to its next stop in Elkhart.

When the group leaves Angola at at 10:28 a.m., the motorcyclists will go up State Road 127 to State Road 120 and then west on 120 through Orland. Police officers will block the intersections that have stop lights and stop signs so the line of bikes will be a continuous

Extraordinary pictures of 9/11 relics revealed as they are shipped across world for tenth anniversary memorials

Draped in American flags and handled with reverence, these are the relics pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center.
They have been stored in Hangar 17 at John F. Kennedy Airport since the recovery operation was completed, and are now being shipped across the world for towns and cities to construct memorials in time for the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
Firefighters from across the U.S. are making a pilgrimage to New York to collect the relics, which were today revealed in a set of extraordinary images.

The photographs of twisted heavy steel, tattered uniforms and even a smashed-up fire truck reveal with terrible poignancy the full devastation of the terrorist attacks.
Organised by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the World Trade Center steel program aims to distribute the relics to firehouses and museums across America.
Some will go even further afield, with tags showing they are destined for memorials as far away as the UK and China.
Bill Baroni, the Port Authority's deputy executive director, told the Boston Herald: 'This is a sacred mission for this agency - to not only rebuild the World Trade Center site, but also make sure that at memorials to 9/11 all across the country, people would be able to, whether in Bergen County, New Jersey, or St. Louis, Missouri ... see what happened that day.

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9/11 Beam To Be Installed At Firefighters Memorial Friday

Fire-Rescue-EMS Battalion Chief Dan Huppe with a beam salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center. The beam is to be installed Friday in the Manchester Firefighters Memorial Garden on Tolland Turnpike. (Jesse Leavenworth\The Hartford Courant / June 21, 2011)


2:13 p.m. EDT, June 21, 2011
MANCHESTER ——
On Friday morning, local firefighters plan to install a steel beam salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center at the Manchester Firefighters Memorial Garden on Tolland Turnpike.

A concrete base has been prepared to hold the approximately 9 1/2-foot-tall column from the North Tower, which is to be lighted perpetually. Fire officials said the installation, on the grounds of Station No. 5, is slated for 8-10 a.m.

http://www.courant.com/community/manchester/hc-manchester-911-beam-install-0622-220110621,0,5188308.story

Giant 9/11 commemorative flag to fly in Portland

PORTLAND — A giant American flag will be in Portland Thursday, part of a 50-state tour before it is displayed in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa., as part of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.



Local firefighters and police will raise the 30-foot by 57-foot flag at 2 p.m., hoisting it between two fire department aerial ladders at the Preble Street Extension parking lot, and lower it at 6 p.m. The public is encouraged to attend and sign the logbook at the Back Cove event.


http://www.pressherald.com/news/maine-portland-911-flag.html

9-11 Memorial takes shape as the clock ticks down

NEW YORK — It’s close to two months to go and counting down.

Construction at the World Trade Center site is at a frenzied, round the clock pace that could be best described as controlled chaos. But it is chaos with a purpose and a very public deadline, which Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials pledge they will meet.
The site will be the focus of world wide attention, along with Pennsylvania and Virginia, on Sept. 11 for the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Port Authority Deputy Director Bill Baroni knows this and sounds almost like British prime minster Winston Churchill during World War II in his resolve. During a tour of the massive construction site Monday, he repeats it like a mantra, talking about the focus, the challenge and the mission, to have the Memorial Plaza completed for the tenth anniversary of the day that changed the world.
“We will hit that deadline,” Baroni said as the sound of construction clattered around him. “It is the sacred mission of this agency.”


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