9/11 Memorial Tour begins in South Carolina

In remembrance of September 11, residents of South Carolina have created a traveling exhibit featuring a 4-ton steel beam that will be part of the September 11 memorial at ground zero. The 9/11 exhibit kicked off a national tour Monday.

City and state officials, victims’ family and friends, and local residents signed the towering beam and wrote messages of remembrance on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

The beam was made by the Owen Steel Co. in Columbia, and will be used in the construction of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the site of the World Trade Center in New York.

Approximately $300 million has been raised privately and more than $250 million has been committed by the federal government to build the memorial that will expand over 8 acres. Two waterfall filled pools will be placed right above the Twin Towers’ footprints. It will be surrounded by oak and sweetgum trees. Visitors will then descend underground to a Sept. 11 museum.

A number of students from a school in Columbia also raised more than half a million dollars after 9/11 to purchase a fire engine for the New York City Fire Department.

Other stops for the exhibition include Cincinnati, Des Moines, Iowa, Madison, Wisconsin, Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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