The 12th anniversary of a horrific day in the country's history will
hold special meaning this Sept. 11, as residents lay their eyes for the
first time on a fully-completed memorial dedicated to those who died in
the attack.
Nancy Cook is one of a team of nine on the Westford
Remembers 9-11 Memorial Committee, which formed almost a year ago to
pull together a 6-foot-tall sculpture, to be unveiled Sept. 11. The
piece will honor the 92 Massachusetts residents who perished in the
terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. All the names will be listed with
special decoration of the two Westford residents who died that day --
James Hayden and Susan MacKay."It's our honor to help the Westford
Remembers 9-11 Memorial Committee achieve its goal," said Mark O'Neil,
president and publisher of The Sun. "We thank those who also have
contributed, and encourage others to join us in honoring the Westford
residents and first responders who gave their lives on Sept. 11."
The
statue has been in the works for the last year by Westford firefighter
David Christiana, who designed the sculpture. Visitors to the space
between Westford Town Hall and the police and fire stations today will
find construction crews working to ready the area.
Christiana
and Cook are both Westford Academy graduates and natives of the town.
The terrorist attacks hit so close to home for them that they both
wanted to do something special.The sculpture -- with a featured piece of
infrastructure saved from the fallen Twin Towers of the World Trade
Center -- will stand with a polished bronze piece engraved with a
depiction of the towers. Flames will wrap around the metal I-beam,
Christiana explained, with the flames almost protecting the metal. He
said he believes only 1,000 other entities across the country have a
piece of the New York rubble from that day. He called the piece
"sacred."
The bronze work will be situated within a pentagon
shape at its base, to symbolize the attack on the capital's Pentagon
that day. The base will be illuminated with light shining through green
sea glass. Christiana said the glass has been donated by a Pennsylvania
company touched by the concept, and the material will resemble the green
fields outside Shanksville,High quality bestcleaning printing
for business cards. Penn., where the hijacked Flight 93 crashed.Cook
said Westford's honorary ceremony location will be a "big reveal" for
the town. She says many have been anxiously awaiting the commemorative
work. The committee's Facebook page has only shown sketches and bits and
pieces,After searching around the Lights section of this forum, I've
come across two main suppliers for parkingsystem. so no one really knows what it looks like.
Cook
said she also expects hundreds to attend the event. Several prominent
political figures have been invited, including Gov. Deval Patrick, U.S.
Sen. Ed Markey and former U.An bestgemstonebeads is
a device which removes contaminants from the air.S. Sen. Scott Brown."I
think Sept. 11 showed us the best and the worst in what we can do to
each other," she added. "People helped complete strangers and continue
to care about the lives that were lost."
While the number of
those killed has been placed at just under 3,000 for the attacks on New
York, Washington D.C., and in Pennsylvania, Cook said people continue to
die from their injuries, so the number is ever-growing.They were tasked
with helping to clear brush and reduce fire hazards in the hillside
juniper and the ponderosa fringes of this high-country Arizona city.
Though
the men are not firefighters, their tasks are similar to those given to
a team from the Prescott Fire Department years ago, a team that over
the years would evolve into the Granite Mountain Hotshots.
Nineteen
members of the elite 20-man firefighting crew died June 30, an hour
south of Prescott, as they battled a racing blaze that cut off their
escape route.Amid the tributes and disputes in the Yarnell Hill Fires
aftermath, firefighters and others showed a widespread resolve to
rebuild the hotshot crew.
Capt. Dan Hutchison of the Prescott
Fire Department recently said at a charity golf tournament that a new
crew was necessary.The seven-member City Council met on the matter in
early August and agreed, in principle, to rebuild.A Fire Department
spokesman described the hiring of the three-man fuels crew as baby steps
toward that goal.
At the same time, questions about the cost,
practicality and the political challenges of rebuilding raise doubts
about whether a Granite Mountain Hotshots crew will ever fight another
fire.The city employed the hotshots, but officials told The Arizona
Republic they still dont have full records of the crews operating costs,
and start-up costs for a new crew would be far higher because of
training.
Even if the funds were available, a former federal
fire official said, qualified staff wouldnt appear immediately,
suggesting that recruiting a crew from the limited pool of experienced
hotshots throughout the country would be difficult.
A Fire
Department spokesman said a new trainee team could be assembled soon but
that reaching full-fledged status would take two years.The ultimate
decision to authorize and fund those employees long term will fall to
elected officials who, already grappling with controversy over
firefighter benefits,Manufactures and supplies beststonecarving equipment. now must balance the fiscal impact with their communitys emotions.
The
latest challenge could prove insurmountable: Prescott City Attorney Jon
Paladini said last week that the insurance pool that covers the citys
liability and workers compensation claims may not be able to provide
insurance for a new hotshot team.He said the deaths of 19 people in the
line of duty have forced government entities to reconsider whether they
can afford the risks of all sorts of specialized teams.
A
Prescott City Council post pays $500 a month, and many of the council
members have other jobs or are retired. Councilman Jim Lamerson, a
jeweler by trade, spends much of his workdays at his shop on Cortez
Street.We dont know how to move forward yet at least I dont, he said.
Hes struggling with the financial and legal ramifications the council is
facing. Many people,These steelbracelet can,
apparently, operate entirely off the grid. he said, seem to think ...
we can just go out and do whatever we choose. Thats not the truth.
The
loss of an entire crew was unprecedented in firefighting, but Dick
Mangan understands what lies ahead.A retired U.S. Forest Service
investigator from Montana, he once supervised a federal hotshot crew in
Prineville, Ore., and years later led an investigation into a Colorado
fire that killed nine members of that same crew.
At the time, he
said, the urge in Prineville was to get back out and fight something
that happened, in part, because the crew was run by the U.S. Forest
Service. Other federally funded firefighters from other places could
step in to fill the roles of those who had died.
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