World Trade Center

Three steel artifacts recovered from the World Trade Center will be on display Thursday and Saturday at the Butcher Shoppe, 410 Stouffer Ave., Chambersburg.   Members of the Letterkenny Chapel 9/11 Franklin County Memorial Committee will be on hand to provide information about the permanent memorial, which will be on the grounds adjacent to the historic Letterkenny Chapel. A wide range of naming opportunities are available for sponsorship of flags, flag poles, benches, trees and pavers that will be placed at the memorial site.

A piece of the World Trade Center rubble left after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, made its way to the Waynesboro area this week in a journey two men say changed them forever. "We had no idea what we were getting into when we went up there (to New York City), just thinking we were going to get an I-beam," Gary Shatzer said. "We brought history to the township," Geoff Rickett said. Shatzer and Rickett are Washington Township, Pa., municipal employees who volunteered to pick up the steel Wednesday.

Washington County Emergency Services officials drove to New York City on Thursday to pick up a 6-foot steel beam that had been part of the World Trade Center buildings when terrorists attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. The beam will be unveiled on Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. during a public ceremony at the Emergency Services Remembrance Garden in Hagerstown's City Park. Verna Brown, emergency management coordinator for Washington County, said members of the Washington County Citizen Corps Committee began working two years ago to get an artifact from ground zero of the attack site.

Michelle Ross said she took her three young children to see a piece of history at City Park on Monday. Although Ross' twin daughters, Alivia and Lauren, are only 3, and her son, George, is just a toddler, she said she wanted them to see the Sept. 11 memorial to teach them early on about the importance of that fateful day. “Girls, do you see this?” Ross asked her daughters. “This came all the way from New York.” “It's perfect,” Alivia said. The large girder that once was part of the World Trade Center in New York City is now a mangled piece of steel.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Nine months after the attacks on the World Trade Center shocked the nation, a traveling memorial for those who died will stop in Chambersburg this week. The World Trade Center Traveling Memorial is sponsored by the Port Authority Police of New York and New Jersey and honors all uniformed services personnel and civilians who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The memorial will be set up at the Franklin Fire Co., 158 W. King St., Chambersburg, from 5 to 9 p.m. today and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Monday, Sept. 8 8 p.m. on PBS "American Experience" Filmmaker Ric Burns concludes his documentary series about New York with a look at how the World Trade Center was designed and built, became a sometimes-controversial landmark and was destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. 9 p.m. on Lifetime "Sex and the Single Mom" Gail O'Grady stars in this new movie as a divorced mother whose affair with a married doctor (Grant Show)

RANSON, W.Va. -- Frank McCluskey on Thursday clued in about 125 people on what it was like to be a firefighter in New York City the day of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. McCluskey, provost and executive vice president of American Public University in Charles Town, was a volunteer fire chief in suburban New York who responded to the World Trade Center. At a 9/11 remembrance at Independent Fire Co. along Fairfax Boulevard, McCluskey recalled how emergency radio frequencies were jammed and how cell phone networks were overwhelmed.

REVIEW The true spirit of heroism that was demonstrated on Sept. 11 is captured in the newly released film "World Trade Center. " The movie shows the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center from the points of view of two Port Authority police officers - John McLoughlin, played by Nicolas Cage and Will Jimeno, played by Michael Pena. In "World Trade Center," John and Will are trapped in rubble after one of the towers collapses. They get buried deeper and deeper and keep each other alive by talking.

Michelle Ross said she took her three young children to see a piece of history at City Park on Monday. Although Ross' twin daughters, Alivia and Lauren, are only 3, and her son, George, is just a toddler, she said she wanted them to see the Sept. 11 memorial to teach them early on about the importance of that fateful day. “Girls, do you see this?” Ross asked her daughters. “This came all the way from New York.” “It's perfect,” Alivia said. The large girder that once was part of the World Trade Center in New York City is now a mangled piece of steel.

A 30-pound rock from the Flight 93 crash site has arrived in Washington Township, Pa., to be incorporated into a Sept. 11, 2001, memorial. Flight 93, which was hijacked by terrorists, crashed at 9:50 a.m., killing all the passengers and crew members. According to the Associated Press, 2,977 people were killed in the attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and in the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. A committee of volunteers is working to create a Sept.

As shoppers left the Butcher Shoppe on Stouffer Avenue Thursday, many stopped by the portable display containing steel beams, huge bolts and rubble from the World Trade Center. Eventually, a permanent memorial containing the trade center artifacts will be erected next to Letterkenny Chapel at Letterkenny Army Depot, Chambersburg. The Letterkenny Chapel 9/11 Franklin County Memorial Committee is spearheading the effort. "It was a very sad day," Cheryl Alleman of Fayetteville, Pa., said of the Sept.

A Sept. 11, 2001, memorial planned for Red Run Park in Washington Township, Pa., features not only three large artifacts, but also plaques describing the terrorist attacks of the day. A committee overseeing the memorial's development in Rouzerville, Pa., debuted a scale model of their plans Monday during a Washington Township Supervisors meeting. The township already obtained a steel beam from the fallen World Trade Center towers in New York City. Negotiations are under way to acquire part of a limestone wall where a terrorist-controlled airplane hit the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., as well as a rock from the crash site in Shanksville, Pa. Those three items would be the main focus of a memorial contained in a pentagon-shaped pavilion about 30 feet in diameter and 18 1/2 feet high.

“The twin towers were a tragic sight. Some people still can't sleep through the night. They remember the towers about to collapse. All you could hear was a bunch of gasps. As the towers were falling, thousands were dying. You could see everyone crying. Eventually the towers were nothing but air. No one spoke but everyone stared. Few survivors were found at the scene and that's something everyone can agree. We can't forget the heroes of Flight 93. They sacrificed their lives as we all see. The terrorists did prove something that day. We are Americans and proud to be the U.S.A.” - Kalynn Boos, 11   Even though 11-year-old Kalynn Boos wasn't old enough to remember the terrorist attacks of Sept.

A piece of the World Trade Center rubble left after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, made its way to the Waynesboro area this week in a journey two men say changed them forever. "We had no idea what we were getting into when we went up there (to New York City), just thinking we were going to get an I-beam," Gary Shatzer said. "We brought history to the township," Geoff Rickett said. Shatzer and Rickett are Washington Township, Pa., municipal employees who volunteered to pick up the steel Wednesday.

Even the timing of the Independent Fire Co.'s 9/11 memorial service Sunday morning was on target. The ceremony, in front of the fire hall's side entrance before an audience of nearly 100, began at 9:59 a.m., the exact time that the World Trade Center's South Tower came crashing down from the impact of United Airlines' Flight 175. It ended at 10:28 a.m., when the North Tower collapsed, the victim of American Airlines' Flight 11. Henry Christie,...

Most every American who is old enough to remember can instantly recall what they were doing on Sept. 11, 2001. The video images from the events of that day are indelibly burned into our consciousness like a nightmare on a continuous loop. As for me, I was on vacation while working for another Maryland newspaper. Instead of being involved in shaping coverage and assigning local stories as the media tried to understand the impact of the terrorist attacks, I stood transfixed like millions of Americans, mouth slightly agape, staring at the television images that went from tragic to horrific.

Katie Monteleone was in third grade when the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. "I remember sitting in class and our teacher telling us that something had happened. They weren't sure if they could tell us what had happened," said Monteleone, 19. "I just remember panic and our teachers not knowing what to do. It was just a very sad day. " The Penn State Mont Alto freshman and other classmates decided to remember Sept. 11 with a day of community service Saturday.