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T hree steel beams from the North
Tower of the New York World
Trade Center arrived at the Port of
Baltimore in November and will remain at
the Port until they are incorporated into
a Maryland 9/11 Memorial expected to be
erected next fall outside Baltimore’s World
Trade Center.
According to Rick Costello, Manager of
Operations Systems for the Maryland Port
Administration (MPA), the beams weigh
a combined total of 4,142 pounds, and
will be stored in a warehouse at Dundalk
Marine Terminal.
A ceremony in November marking the
arrival of steel beams from the New York
World Trade Center was attended by,
clockwise from top, the MPA's Brian Miller
and Sam Azzarello, the Baltimore City
Fire Department Honor Guard and
Gov. Martin O'Malley.
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9/11 Artifacts Stored In Dundalk
Prior To Memorial Construction
Overseeing the creation of the memorial
is a Maryland 9/11 Memorial Advisory
Committee comprised of businesses, public
safety personnel, artists, victims’ families
and other stakeholders. The committee is
chaired by Rand Griffin, President and CEO
of the Corporate Office Properties Trust
(COPT). The memorial will be funded by
private donations and volunteer services.
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who
was joined by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie
Rawlings-Blake and other dignitaries at
the Artifact Receiving and Remembrance
Ceremony in November, observed that the
beams are pieces of girders from the North
Tower that bent and melted together. “In a
way they are metaphoric for our country,”
the Governor added, “while we may bend,
we never break. In times of adversity, we
come together as one, and we rise.”
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL MCALLEN