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Artist Peter Max has designed a poster to benefit the Pentagon Memorial Fund.
The Pentagon Memorial, located just southwest of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, is a permanent outdoor memorial to those killed in the building and on American Airlines Flight 77 in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The Pentagon Memorial was constructed from a design by Beckman and Kaseman of New York City, with design support from Buro Happold, that was chosen following a design competition.
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The Pentagon Memorial is being built on a 1.9 acre parcel of land adjacent to the Pentagon and within view of the impact zone where American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the building during the attacks of September 11th, 2001. The Memorial will include 184 cantilevered benches that represent each victim who lost their life that day.
In two days, after seven years, our dream of creating a fitting memorial to the 184 lives lost at the Pentagon will finally come to fruition with the dedication and opening of the Pentagon Memorial.
The Pentagon Memorial Fund is a non-profit organization established by the families of the 184 victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in Washington, DC. The Memorial Fund’s mission is to provide for the construction and permanent maintenance of the Pentagon Memorial, a beautiful park located at the grounds of the attack that will provide a place for reflection, remembrance and renewal.
May 23, 2008- - Today family members, donors, supporters and representatives from the media were able to tour the Pentagon Memorial construction site and receive a fundraising and construction update from Pentagon Memorial Fund President James J. Laychak.
Laychak reported that fundraising has been successful as well and the Pentagon Memorial Fund has raised close to $19 million of the $22 million required to fund the construction costs.
The excitement shared by the designers, construction workers, Pentagon Memorial Fund officials and family members is contagious.
Our Pentagon Memorial Fund website recently saw a spike in traffic and donations after the Memorial and family members were featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Benches for the 125 people who died inside the Pentagon will be oriented toward the building, and benches for the 59 passengers and crew aboard the hijacked jet will face away from the building, toward the sky, explained Jim Laychak, president of the Pentagon Memorial Fund.
Representatives of Fairfax County, Va., donated $100,000 Tuesday to help build the Pentagon Memorial that will honor the 184 people, including 20 county residents, killed during the Sept. Or they read a news article about the Pentagon Memorial or drive past the site where Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon and want to make a difference, want to join our team and help us complete this Memorial. These are things anyone can do.
Each time I visit the construction site and each fundraising meeting I participate in, I can see the Pentagon Memorial taking shape.
The Pentagon Memorial is no exception and I am happy to report that we are nearing the completion of the foundation stage of construction and are getting ready to begin new stages that will shape the public view of the Memorial.
“CSC has pledged $100,000.00 and Jim Schaeffer, president of CSC”s Federal Sector, looks forward to providing Jim Laychak a check for that amount. On behalf of the 90 thousand CSC employees we are honored to be taking part in the construction of the Pentagon Memorial and honoring all of those who make sacrifices to keep our country safe.”
My hope is all of you will be able to make that connection when you visit the Pentagon Memorial.
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County Supervisor Penelope A. Gross presented a check that brings funds raised so far to more than $15 million, Pentagon Memorial Fund spokesman Jerry Mullins reported.
The Pentagon Memorial Fund was also the benefactor of a pin auction and exchange sponsored by the Hard Rock Caf”.
At the same time there are tours, introductions and meetings that are helping to raise the funds necessary to construct the Pentagon Memorial.
The Pentagon Memorial will cost $22 million to construct and an endowment of $10 million will be created to maintain the Memorial forever.
September 11th, the victims of the attack on the Pentagon will be remembered at the dedication of the Pentagon Memorial.
The Pentagon Memorial Fund has raised $19 million from sources as diverse as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, NBA star David Robinson and the government of Taiwan.
PART TWO PART TWO : Pentagon Memorial designers Julie Beckman and Keith Kaseman explain the elements of the park, which will be unveiled Sept. 11, 2008.
PART ONE PART ONE : Pentagon Memorial designers Julie Beckman and Keith Kaseman describe their journey and their inspiration to enter the Memorial design competition.
Opened in September 2002 after Pentagon repairs were completed, the America’s Heroes Memorial and chapel are located where American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the building.
One month after the attacks, 25,000 people attended a memorial service at the Pentagon for employees and family members; speakers included President George W. Bush remarked, “The wound to this building will not be forgotten, but it will be repaired.
A smaller service is held at the memorial site for family and friends of victims killed at the Pentagon on 9/11.
Memorial services are held on the anniversary of 9/11 at the Pentagon, with one service in an auditorium at the Pentagon for employees.
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, an impromptu memorial was set up on a hill at the Navy Annex, overlooking the Pentagon.
The memorial is being built on nearly two acres of land along the path the passenger jet took just before it hit the building. Pointing to another picture, he said: “He was a really nice guy.”
The two-acre memorial at the Pentagon memorial at the Pentagon - with 184 steel-and-granite benches, each engraved with a victim’s name - is about 200 feet from the crash site, oriented along the plane’s flight path.
Unlike Pentagon tours, which can only be booked by groups through reservations made at least two weeks in advance, the memorial will be open to the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week, starting at 7 tonight.
The benches representing the victims that were inside the Pentagon are arranged so those reading the names will face the Pentagon’s south facade, where the plane hit; benches with victims on the plane are arranged so that those reading the engraved name will be facing skyward along the path the plane traveled.
To commemorate the anniversary each year, an American flag is hung on the section of the Pentagon hit by Flight 77. Donations include $250,000 from American Forests towards planting trees at the memorial, and $1 million from the government of Taiwan.
As of May 2007, $13.8 million had been raised for construction of the memorial.
The construction of the memorial is estimated to cost $22 million, with another $10 million set aside in an endowment to provide maintenance of the memorial.
The memorial includes a book of photographs and biographies of the victims. It also includes five large black acrylic panels: one displays the Purple Heart medal awarded to military members killed in the attacks, another shows the medal given to civilians, two back wall panels are etched with the victims’ names, and a center panel shows tribute statements.
A small memorial in one corner of the Mall of America also remembers the victims of September 11th, 2001.
Designed by Julie Beckman and Keith Kaseman of the architectural firm of Kaseman Beckman Amsterdam Studio, the memorial opened to the public on September 11, 2008.
Laychak”s brother, David, was an Army civilian employee killed in the attack. Organizers are expecting thousands of people to be on hand when the memorial is dedicated.
About 3,000 people died in the coordinated attacks that brought down the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, left the Pentagon badly damaged and a smoldering gash in a Pennsylvania field where the final hijacked airliner crashed after passengers fought the hijackers.
“I don’t know how to describe it, but it tells the story of what happened, which is sort of what helps me to heal,” said Ploger, whose relatives were on their honeymoon when they died.
Each bench is engraved on the end with the name of one of the 184 people who died on board Flight 77 or in the Pentagon that day.
The 125 benches for the victims inside the Pentagon face the opposite direction, so someone reading the name will look up and see the south facade of the Pentagon Pentagon, where the jet hit that day.
