Beam from World Trade Center highlights Pittsboro 9/11 memorial
People across the Triangle will take time Thursday to remember the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and in Chatham County, residents will be able to do so at a memorial that includes a steel beam from the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Posted — UpdatedThe beam arrived in Pittsboro in 2011, and work is still ongoing on a memorial that will honor those lost in the Sept. 11 attacks.
"This is now 13 years ago this happened, and very few of the children that are in school today have any rememberance of this," Don Lein, one of the organizers of the Chatham County memorial, said. "It's important for us to say, 'Hey, this happened and it called our attention to something very important.'"
The 19-foot-long beam was displayed on the 9-11 Memorial Tribute Trail through Chatham County before being brought to Pittsboro.
Elsewhere in the Triangle on Thursday, residents will mark the day at service events that include home-building events ton picking up trash.
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