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Tuesday, February 4, 2003 I HE BATTALION
D.C. park chosen as
Pentagon memorial
By Pauline Jelinek
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Victims
of the Sept. 1 1 attack on the
Pentagon will be remembered
outside the massive Defense
Department headquarters by a
grove of trees, 184 lighted pools
and benches engraved with the
names of those who died.
Pentagon officials
announced Monday that the
memorial’s design, by two New
York architects,
had been chosen
from among more
than 1,100 entries
in a competition.
The two-acre
memorial will be
165 feet from the
Pentagon, near the
spot where terror
ists crashed a
hijacked jetliner
into the building.
The benches
will sit atop small
lighted reflecting
pools, arranged by age of the
victims, from 3 to 71, and posi
tioned parallel to the plane’s
flight path, officials said. The
Sept. 11, 2001, crash killed
125 people in the building and
64 on the plane. The five al-
Qaida hijackers are not among
the 184 people honored by the
memorial.
“The thing 1 liked about it
was it was a collective memori
al and an individual memorial,
yet it told the story of what hap
pened on that day,” said Jim
Laychak, who served on the vic
tims’ family steering committee.
His brother, 40-year-old
David Laychak, was a civilian
budget analyst for the Army
who died in the attack.
Stephanie Dunn, widow of
39-year-old Navy Cmdr. Patrick
Dunn, said the design satisfies
her need for a place where her
year-old daughter and other vis
itors someday will be able to
sit and reflect on the lives of
those lost.
“It’s very important to us
that they have a place where
there’s a moment to pause,”
said Dunn, who was three
months pregnant at thetimeof
the attack.
Officials said they hope to
have the memorial complete by
Sept. 11 next year. Its cost is
estimated at $4.9 million to
million, to be paid fromcontn-
butions and other funds with no
federal money,
officials said.
The design
ers are Julie
Beckman, 30,
and Keill
Kaseman, 31,of
New York City
“The memo
rial had to be
like no other
memorial
because Sept.
11 was like no
other day,” said
Beckman.
In the design, each alu
minum bench will have the
name of a victim engraved on
its face and a glowing light
pool beneath it. Clusters of
trees will be planted for shade
and to make the site more inti
mate, officials said.
Announcement of the
design selection follows the
announcement last week in
New York of a design for rede
velopment of the site where the
World Trade Center was lev
eled by terrorist airline hijack
ers on the same day.
That design will have a clus
ter of glassy, angled buildings
and a 1,776-foot spire filled
with gardens instead of offie
space. It would preserve part,d
the pit that was the foundation
of the twin towers for an as-
yet-undesigned memorial to lit
almost 2,800 people who died
The memorial
had to be like no
other memorial...
because Sept. 11 was
like no other day.
— julie Beckman
memorial designer
NEWS IN BRIEF
Authorities find
drugs in clay truck
LAREDO, Texas (AP) — When
U.S. Customs inspectors inspect
ed a shipment of ornamental clay
pottery, they found 310 packages
containing 3,365 pounds of mari
juana, officials said.
The discovery occurred Friday
during a routine inspection of a
tractor-trailer rig at the World
Trade Bridge, Customs officials
said Monday. During the exami
nation, inspectors noticed dis
crepancies in the weight of the
clay articles. When inspectors
opened one of the clay pedestals,
they found a tape-wrapped bun
dle, officials said.
A drug-sniffing dog alerted the
odor of marijuana in the bundle,
and inspectors proceeded to find
marijuana with an estimated
street value of $3.3 million.
Inmate escapes
from Texas prison
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Arizona inmate escaped from tbe
Newton County Correct^
Center by cutting a hole through
a fence in a low-security area,)
prison employee said.
James R. Duncan, 38, broke oil
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which Duncan escaped had limit
ed security.
Duncan was last seen wearinj
a two-piece orange jail uniform
Duncan is white, 6 feet, 4 indies
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