Report: Wife Scratched Tiger Woods' Face, Chased His SUV; Update: Police Unable To Interview Couple Today
Dubai Debt Issues Push Stocks Down
GMA: Adam Lambert, No; Chris Brown, Yes
Family Gets Early Christmas Gift From Ellen DeGeneres
Street Artist Proposes on Subway Signage
Thousands of residents near Banker Steel in Lynchburg, VA convened at the steel factory where beams for Freedom Tower are being prepared. Governor Pataki and steelworkers were the first to write messages on and sign three beams that were painted white - then the beams were made available to the public yesterday. The AP reports that one woman, Diane Hall, who came with her grandson, said, "If anybody can do anything to let those people know that we care, then that's what we ought to do." The first batch of beams is being shipped to Ground Zero today.
Banker Steel provided 25,000 tons of steel to the original World Trade Center project; Freedom Tower will get about 3,000 tons from Banker Steel. The beams for Freedom Tower are an international affair: They were forged in Luxembourg, and Banker Steel is also reinforcing them with 6-inch plates from Germany.
Photographs of the September arrival of steel in Virginia by Joe Woolhead
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
Is anyone else as annoyed as I am that they are putting all these pomp and pagentry around the Freedom Tower .. but nothing is really getting done? After 5 years, we still pretty much have a hole in the ground.
The problem is when you put so much symbolism and value into a project, everything is going to be so overanalyzed and too much time wasted on symbolic acts that really don't mean anything.
In the mean time, the BoA building is almost complete and a couple new buildings have gone up in midtown.
Because nothing says Freedom like steel from...Germany? And to think we used to make it over in PA. You know, where they signed that Declaration thingy once upon a time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.... I remember that....And that Constitution doo-dad thing as well.....
Luxembourg?? Come on now....
Look,let's put the next Batch of WTO Kike Towers up in Timbuktu,that way the next time someone want's to bring down the Monuments of Greed,it does not look like an Attack on the US.