A number of memorials were raised in the honor of the
victims and heroes of the fateful September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks,
throughout America, besides the famous sites such as the World Trade
Center, Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The first memorial was
erected in Tucson, Arizona dedicated to Captain Jack D. Punches, a
passenger in the plane that hit the Pentagon. A sculpture at Los Angeles
airport Theme Building, California, is dedicated to them and depicts a
compass with words and phrases reflecting national rights, visions and
ideals. Another memorial dedicated to the 343 New York City firefighters
who sacrificed their lives while helping the victims is situated at the
Fire Department Training Center in Los Angeles. It is a 23-ft steel
column that was part of the lobby of the World Trade Center.
Other memorials in California include the one at Pepperdine University,
Malibu dedicated to Flight 93 passenger, Thomas E. Burnett Jr, and at a
school in San Jose dedicated to Captain Jason Dahl, one of the pilots on
United Flight 93 who grew up in the city. In the honor of baseball fan
Matthew Flocco, age 21, the baseball field in Newark, Delaware was named
after him. The life-size statue of CeeCee Lyles, a flight attendant on
board United Airlines flight 93, grace Fort Pierce, Florida. Burlington,
Massachusetts has a brick memorial dedicated to the three victims from
Boston suburbs who were aboard the American Airlines Flight 11 that
struck the World Trade Center. There is a thirty-three acre farmland
memorial too honoring John Ogonowski, captain of American Airlines
Flight 11.
New Jersey has a local post office in Cranbury named after the former
resident Todd Beamer, the Flight 93 passenger, a bench and flagpole in
the Atlantic city dedicated to Victor Saracini, pilot of United Airlines
Flight 175 and a waterfront memorial in Hoboken, N.J., home to more than
50 people killed at the World Trade Center across the Hudson River. Many
such memorials have been erected and are planned to be erected in New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, DC and Minnesota. Native
Americans of the Lummi Nation gifted 13-ft high totem 'healing poles' to
Shanksville and New York city as a mark of their grief over the
unfortunate incident. Other memorials erected for the victims outside
America are situated in Ethiopia and London, England.
