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9/11 Memorial a Testament to Family Grit

Posted Sep 11, 08 2:21 AM CDT in US 

(Newser) – The first national memorial to the victims of 9/11 will be dedicated at the Pentagon today and it was the hard work of grieving families who made it possible, the Washington Post writes. Funding assumptions in the aftermath of the tragic attacks fell apart by the time construction began—and it took a determined effort by those who lost loved ones to ensure the memorial was built.

The director of the Pentagon Memorial Fund, who lost his brother in the attacks, took a personal approach as donations dried up and he traveled to corporate boardrooms across the country in a plea for funds. The memorial's 184 steel benches, one for every victim of the attack on the Pentagon, stand on the building's western side—exactly where the plane hit exactly seven years ago.

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A view of The Pentagon Memorial dedicated in honor of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon.   (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
Members of the military do a walk-through during a rehearsal at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008, for Thursday's opening of The Pentagon Memoria.   (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
Members of the military do a walk-through at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008, for Thursday's opening of The Pentagon Memorial.   (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
A view of part of the September 11 Memorial is shown during a media tour at the Pentagon.   (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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CBS reports on the Pentagon memorial in Washington D.C., in honor of the 184 victims who died there on September 11, 2001.   (CBS)

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I have a love-hate relationship with it. It's a beautiful memorial, and I'm very grateful. But I wish it wasn't there. I wish it didn't have to be there in the first place. - Kathy Dillaber, a Pentagon worker who lost her sister on 9/11

I'll still be out there working to keep the whole thing alive, so people don't forget. I don't think the public thinks much about 9/11 now. - Memorial fund board member Lisa Dolan, whose husband, Navy Capt. Robert Edward Dolan Jr., was killed in the attack.

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