COLUMBUS – For the 17th consecutive year, the west lawn of the Ohio Statehouse will be decorated with nearly 3,000 tiny American flags, one for every person killed in attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.
Thank you to everyone who volunteered this evening to install the #911Memorial at the #OhioStatehouse. The memorial will be open through Thursday, September 13. #CapitolSquare #NeverForget911 #AlwaysRemember @HandsOnCntrlOH @Ohio_EMA pic.twitter.com/7RwONHSa7U
— Ohio Statehouse (@OhioStatehouse) September 10, 2018
Since 2002, the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board, HandsOn Central Ohio and the Ohio Emergency Management Agency have displayed the 2,977 U.S. Flags that represent the victims of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and United Airlines Flight 93.
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Following a short program that will begin at 5:00 p.m. Monday on the west steps of the Statehouse, volunteers from across central Ohio will install the flags and the memorial will be open to the public from 7:00 p.m. Monday until 5:00 p.m. Thursday.
When seen from above, the design represents the World Trade Center towers, with a space in the shape of the Pentagon and an open strip representing the field in Shanksville, Pa., where passengers overpowered the hijackers and deliberately crashed one of the jetliners before it could strike its target.
Mayor Andrew Ginther and other city officials will hold a memorial ceremony at noon Tuesday on City Hall Commons at the corner of Front and Gay Streets.
A wind chime tower is in place at the national memorial to the crew and passengers of United Flight 93, which crashed in the field.
The Tower of Voices monument dedicated Sunday is the final major construction project of the Flight 93 National Memorial. President Donald Trump is expected to visit the site on Tuesday.