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Memorial to 9/11 victims set to open at Pentagon
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-09-09 11:10 Memorials are also planned in New York and western Pennsylvania at the sites where three other hijacked planes hit September 11, but the Pentagon Memorial is the first to be completed. It has avoided some of the controversies that have plagued other sites. Some family members of those who died when United Flight 93 went down in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, say a grove of trees planned there mimics the Muslim crescent. Proponents say it represents a "broken circle," not a crescent. In New York, work on the memorial stopped for a time as officials sought to cut costs from a project approaching the $1 billion mark. Construction of the memorial is entwined with overall redevelopment efforts at the World Trade Center site, and has been delayed. Project managers have already given up on a 2009 completion date and have recently warned that itcolors change, said Lea Hutchins, a spokeswoman for the Pentagon Renovation Program. From the memorial, the rebuilt section of the Pentagon remains clearly visible, the new limestone a slightly lighter shade than the old. Planes coming in to nearby Reagan National Airport fly low and loud along the Potomac River. Laychak, for all the time he has spent at the memorial, has not yet visited the bench engraved with his brother's name. He is waiting for memorial's dedication so he can see it for the first time together with his family. "I wanted to save that moment," he said. On the Net: memorial.pentagon.mil www.pentagonmemorial.net |
