9/11 Memorial Dedicated in Boston

Photographs of the 9/11 Memorial in Boston from the AP

Dignitaries and families of September 11 victims gathered for the dedication a 9/11 memorial in Boston yesterday. Before you wonder why a memorial is by a thruway, the memorial sits on the property of Logan Airport, where two of the hijacked planes started their flights--United 175 and United 11--before crashing into the World Trade Center.

One woman whose husband died aboard UA Flight 175 told the Boston Globe, "I didn't expect it to be as heart-wrenching as it was. We've been to so many services and memorials, but this makes me realize that my memories are not buried as deep in my heart as I thought they were." The memorial, made of glass and steel, is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and was designed by Moskow Linn. It has the names of 175 victims inscribed in glass panels and the winding paths to the memorial are supposed to "mirror the twisting flight paths." The words "Remember this day" are also inscribed on a terrace.

A man whose wife, a flight attendant, died on American Flight 11 said, "There's some comfort here, but unfortunately it brings up the tragic events of Sept. 11."

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By Jen Chung in News on September 10, 2008 10:08 AM

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Snoopy

One thing that would have stopped them was a secure cockpit area. How many plane skyjackings have there been since the secure cockpit was established? How many before? Pure and stupid on the part of those in charge of airline safety.

Jen Chung

Spiritof76 is right--hard to say what would have stopped them. But I'll share this anecdote: My dad was on a United flight headed to SF on September 11 that morning. His plane was sitting on the tarmac at Logan because, by then, flight control was told what had happened. When he called me after getting back into the airport, he said he wasn't surprised it happened, he felt like Logan's security was mess.

Spirit of 76

BTW, [9] they didn't do a terrible job on 9/11. Nobody expected box cutters to lead to planes crashing into buildings. If a terrorist did that again after 9/11, then you can say security was incompetent in that regard, but as of now, that scheme will never work again. Which is not to say security is great, since we hear about fake bomb and weapons tests passing through security seemingly every other week.

Spirit of 76

At this rate, every town, village and two-bit burg in the country will have 9/11 memorials finished before NYC does.

ANGRYGOD11

The memorial should be broken down into small pieces and kept in/by the parking lots, break rooms, locker rooms, cafeterias and time clocks of the security employees at Logan Airport who did such a bad job 9/11/2001.

They earned it.

Reflect

follow the twisting flight paths? Tacky who wants to do that. Its a memorial not a reenactment

Dirk

Haha... a lot of Boston zingers in the comments....

Gregoire

This looks EXACTLY like Boston's Holocaust memorial. Do they order these from a IKEA catalog?

Snoopy

Wouldn't it be more appropriate that the memorial be dedicated tomorrow?

It took seven years to build that? I can see why it's taking so long for the Ground Zero projects to be built.

Son of Spam

The real nice thing about this Boston memorial is that once you are done leaving your respects, you can head downstairs and pick up one of those sexy new iPods.