(As submitted by the 180th Fighter Wing, Ohio Air National Guard)
The 180th Fighter Wing, Ohio Air National Guard, will host a 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016, at Northwest Ohio’s 9/11 Memorial, currently under construction at the 180FW, beginning at 10:00 a.m.
The Ceremony, commemorating the 15th anniversary of the attacks on our great nation, will include a flag ceremony, hoisting the flag on the new flagstaff at the center of the memorial, remarks from Col. Kevin Doyle, 180FW Commander, Mr. Steve Way, Principle Director of DGL Consulting Engineers and TRACE Executive Board Member, and Mrs. Wendy Gramza, President of the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Concluding the ceremony, Mr. Brian Lauderman, Project Manager for jdi Group and TRACE Project Manager for the memorial will conduct a walk-through of the memorial, highlighting each artifact of the memorial as well as a special musical presentation from the Springfield High School Marching Band.
Members of the 180FW worked diligently to collect various artifacts for the memorial to include steel beams from the World Trade Center, limestone from the pentagon and soil from Pennsylvania where Flight 93 crashed. The memorial, designed as a sun dial, will also include locally, hand-blown glass pieces representing the 2,977 lives lost in the attacks.
TRACE – Toledo Regional Architects, Contractors & Engineers, along with support from other Toledo community partners are working together to engineer and construct their vision and plan to complete the permanent memorial by Sept. 11, 2017, the 16th anniversary of the attacks.
For more information about the memorial, visit: http://web.toledochamber.com/cwt/external/wcpagestrace/what/911_memorial.aspx
