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Air Force ROTC cadets in the 536 Detachment salute World Trade Center beams as the National Anthem is played on Sept. 11, 2006, during a memorial ceremony at Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y. Clarkson alumnus Michael Bielawa, who supervised cleanup efforts at ground zero, donated three pieces of structural steel to the school, two of which were identified as part of the 55th floor of the south tower.
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Vacaville Police officer Otha Livingston, background, salutes while "Taps" is played at the conclusion of a Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony, Monday, Sept. 11, 2006, in Vacaville, Calif. In the foreground is a portion of an I-Beam from the World Trade Center that has been fashioned into a memorial sculpture for public safety officers in front of the Vacaville Police department.
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Ron Parker, a first responder on Sept 11, 2001, and now a tour guide at ground zero, stands next to a twisted beam from the World Trade Center site in the new Tribute WTC Visitor Center, Sept 6, 2006. The center will serve as a temporary memorial space until the official memorial opens in 2009.
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"The Freedom Memorial: Standing Tall" sculpture by Robert Kuntz stands at St. Patricks Park north of South Bend, Ind., Aug. 31, 2006. The sculpture depicts the plane that crashed and the tower collapsing at the World Trade Center. At the base is a four-foot-long, 400-pound steel beam from the twin towers. The sculpture was dedicated in 2003 to Katie McCloskey of South Bend, who was killed in the attacks.
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Michael Baer, right, and Tony Stinnett, both of Baer and Sons Memorial, lower the main stone for the Pentagon Memorial Monument in Lynchburg, Va., on Aug. 24, 2006. The granite monument with a limestone remnant from the Pentagon is Joey Ricketts' Eagle Scout project and a memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Michael Baer, of Baer and Sons Memorial in Lynchburg, Va., measures the space where the picture of the damaged Pentagon, held by Tony Stinnett, will be placed on the newly installed Pentagon Memorial Monument in Lynchburg on Aug. 24, 2006. The granite monument with a limestone remnant from the Pentagon is Joey Ricketts' Eagle Scout project and a memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Eagle Scout Joey Ricketts watches as a piece of the Pentagon is installed by Tony Stinnett, left, and Dennis Charlton, in Lynchburg, Va., on Aug. 24, 2006. The large stone came from the Pentagon after it was struck by a plane on Sept. 11, 2001. A granite monument with a limestone remnant from the Pentagon is Joey Ricketts' Eagle Scout project and a memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Tourists get their picture taken with a human Statue of Liberty near the remains of a sculpture that once stood in the plaza between the World Trade Center towers prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan, Aug. 23, 2006.
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Allen Jones, left, Aaron McDonald and Jim Gallucci, of Greensboro, N.C., begin to erect Gallucci's sculpture, "The Gates," at the Airborne & Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville, N.C., Aug. 21, 2006. The symbolic gate is made from the ruins of the World Trade Center.
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Artist Jim Gallucci's work, a 23-foot tall gate seen April 4, 2005, in Greensboro, N.C. Gallucci used beams from the twin towers to create his piece. One side of the symbolic gate resembles the twin towers, while the other depicts papers blowing from the damaged buildings. A central, rotating door sits on a pentagonal base featuring bronze "pages of expression" etched with people's sentiments.
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A bird flies off of the famous cross of steel beams found in the debris of the World Trade Center site in New York on Aug. 18, 2006.
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Steel workers congregate around the steel beam recovered and removed from the World Trade Center site after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, on Liberty Street as they deliver it to the Tribute WTC Center in New York on Aug. 16, 2006. The Tribute Center, which opens officially on Sept. 18, will be the only official visitors center for the site until a museum and memorial are built.
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A twisted steel I-beam removed from the World Trade Center site is warehoused in Queens, N.Y., July 12, 2006. The items stored by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will be displayed in the planned World Trade Center Museum in Lower Manhattan.
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Onlookers, including New York City firefighters, view a 9/11 monument of steel girders recovered from the World Trade Center site during a dedication ceremony at the Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum, Aug. 21, 2002. Two 14-foot steel beams recovered from the site are intended to represent the twin towers.
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