Never forget: WTC remnants are in the Valley

BAZETTA — Hangar 17 at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York is quiet.

“Oddly quiet — and eerie,” said Brian Taylor.

Two months ago, he walked into the hangar and saw a steel beam as long as a fire station bent into a horseshoe. His eyes fixed on a charred rack holding bicycles melded to it during the inferno of Sept. 11, 2001.

“Everything was all burned up, damaged,” said Taylor, a captain with the Bazetta Fire Department. “I’m looking around, and I decide I don’t want to be in here anymore. I got very emotional and turned around and left.”

But Taylor didn’t leave empty-handed. He and several others from the township fire department

returned with a steel I-beam from the World Trade Center. It will be the focal point of a 9/11 memorial in

Bazetta Township. The plan is to house the memorial in the lobby of a future new fire station.

Ten years ago, terrorists hijacked planes and turned them into weapons, killing about 3,000 people in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa. Now, a decade later, a national memorial and museum at ground zero in New York City is being dedicated.

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