9/11 Memorial to be reconstructed

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.bellevueleader.com/site/tab3.cfm?newsid=19705190&BRD=2712&PAG=461&dept_id=559850&rfi=6

By: Jason Glenn, Leader staff writer
05/24/2008

A moving tribute is on the move.

Bellevue's 9/11 Memorial, which has been located on a grassy field in Haworth Park for the last six years, has been disassembled and will be moved to a new site north of Mission Avenue.

"Our goal is to get that memorial rebuilt for the Sept. 11 ceremony this year," said Public Works Director Jerry Hare. "It'll be a lot more visible."

The memorial, consisting of two flagpoles representing the World Trade Center towers, a to-scale, five-sided concrete ring honoring the Pentagon and the number "93" for the hijacked airplane that crashed in Shanksville, Pa., will be reconstructed in the new riverfront development north of Haworth Park.

Hare said the new memorial will be identical to the original and will sit on a rise between two football fields in the new park, easily seen by drivers coming into town across the Bellevue Bridge.

He also said one of the first things he did after realizing the memorial would have to be relocated to make way for Bellevue University's new baseball field was to contact the man most responsible for bringing it to life, Bill O'Donnell of the Bellevue Kiwanis Club.


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