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This steel
cross section was cut from a box column retrieved from the rubble of the
World Trade Center in New York City. The column came from the 65th
floor of one of the towers destroyed by terrorists using two hijacked
jetliners on September 11, 2001. The Oak Ridge High School Student
Council of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
dedicated the column for plaques in capital cities around the nation as a
permanent memorial to the approximately 2,820 people who died in the
attack and rescue effort. The Pentagon was also attacked using
another plane, and 184 people were killed there. A fourth plane was
hijacked and heading for Washington, D. C., when passengers rose up to
foil the plan of the terrorists. All 40 died when the plane crashed
in Pennsylvania. Student leaders in the State of
** , working with
others around the country, hereby establish a portion of a collective
monument to the resolve of the people of the United States of America who
bound themselves to end this world menace. May these remnants
inspire the people of the world in the advance of freedom and the
destruction of evil. |
