09/09/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/09/2024 14:01
In 2011, 10 years after the 9/11 attacks, the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown dedicated the Heroes Memorial to commemorate one of the deadliest incidents of terrorism worldwide. The centerpiece of the monument is a 3,500-pound steel I-beam from the World Trade Center in New York City, one of three sites where airplanes crashed during the attack.
Of the 9,000-plus names on the memorial, more than 3,023 belong to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The Pitt-Johnstown campus is 20 miles north of the Flight 93 crash site and 200 miles from the Pentagon, where a third plane crashed. In addition to the steel beam, the site honors more than 46,000 members of the military killed in Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Photography by Alyssa Locke