Category Archives: 9/11 Memorials

The Northwest Ohio 9/11 Memorial, sponsored by the 180th Fighter Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard will open to the public on Tuesday, November 13, 2018.

The memorial is designed as a sundial; its outside is numbered like a clock, reflecting the four times planes were crashed by terrorists on September 11, 2001. The memorial contains artifacts from the three sites affected by the terrorist attacks, including steel from the World Trade Center, limestone from the Pentagon, and soil from the field in rural Pennsylvania where Flight 93 went down.

Visiting the memorial is free, but because it is on a military base, visitors must register for tours.

The Friends of Flight 93 unanimously approved a merger with the Families of Flight 93, provided that the Families of Flight 93 agree. The Families of Flight 93 are, as it sounds, family members of the 40 passengers and crew members killed in the terrorist attack on United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. The […]