A piece of the World Trade Center traveling across the country was in the Ozarks and drawing a large crowd in Mt. Vernon on Wednesday, August 11.
T.A. Truck Stop became more than a stop for gas and snacks. It was the resting place for a tragic piece of American history - a twisted piece of the Twin Towers lay on a flatbed truck in the back.
This large, twisted metal beam started its long journey at JFK Airport in New York City and is heading for Silverdale, Washington, where it will be used as a memorial. For locals who didn’t expect to see such a sight, as well as Lee and Donna Summers, who were transporting the beam, it was a humbling experience.
Hearts were heavy with grief all across the world following the horrific attack on our innocent men, women and children in New York, Washington D.C. and near Pittsburg that early Tuesday morning in September 2001.
Many Americans watched thousands of their fellow citizens die before their eyes. People who had their televisions on shortly before 10:30 a.m. Eastern time, had just watched video replays of Kamikaze-type attacks upon the World Trade Center in New York.
Even the chilling sight of a civilian passenger aircraft angling into position for a direct crash into one of the 110 story twin towers could not prepare us for what was next.
We watched live video of the tower as it’s top 30 or so stories burned. And then, the top of the building collapsed before our own eyes. We watched in stunned silence as it impacted on the structure immediately below, starting a horrible chain of reaction destruction. We knew immediately that an incomprehensibly high number of human lives were lost in those few seconds and it will be a day never forgotten!
