One Step Closer to Making 9/11 Memorial a Reality

With the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 just around the corner, the POW/MIA-9/11 Remembrance Committee is hard at work on its remembrance

Committee Co-chairs John Bouchard and Ed Stanton, along with the rest of the committee, have been busy finalizing the details to get steel artifacts saved from the World Trade Center towers to Attleboro's where it will placed. City workers were busy excavating the site at Veteran's Memorial Triangle Capron Park earlier this week.

The POW/MIA-9/11 memorial design includes a mill wheel, which is a metaphor for the weight of the nation's responsibility to always remember, according to Co-Chair Ed Stanton. The granite piece of the memorial will be polished and engraved, 'You are not forgotten', there will be the POW/MIA symbol and a sketch of the Twin Towers.

While the Committee got the okay for the steel, it is responsible for picking up and transporting the steel from the number 17 hanger at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, where all the remaining steel is being stored and bring it back to Attleboro. 

The group is currently awaiting its pick up order, according to Bouchard. The committee's next meeting is Tuesday, Aug. 24.