Photo taken by Joe Laufer - August, 1984 on family visit to Statue of Liberty

I personally visited the World Trade center again in May, 1991 with my wife, Penny, and brother-in-law, Chuck Raad. We had dinner in "Windows on the World" (106th floor of the North Tower -- the one with the antena) and I took pictures from the "Top of the World" observation deck on the 107th floor of the South Tower, including a close-up picture of the top floor and antenna on the North Tower.

Inventory of 9/11 World Trade Center Steel Memorial Pieces

Located Throughout Burlington County, New Jersey  

Based on a list provided by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, the following ten organizations located in Burlington County have received at least one section of steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center site for memorial use. Most have been enshrined in a memorial setting, while several of the memorials are under construction. Here is the official list:

• Air Victory Museum Lumberton
• Borough of Medford Lakes Medford Lakes
• Burlington County Emergency Services Westampton (listed as Mount Holly)
• Franklin Volunteer Fire Co. #1 Columbus (Mansfield)
• Heritage Program of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst McGuire AFB
• Lumberton Fire Co. #1 Lumberton
• Maple Shade Township Maple Shade
• Mount Laurel Fire Department (Station 362) Mount Laurel
• Mount Laurel Township Mount Laurel
• Westampton Township Emergency Services Westampton

The pieces are of various sizes and weights. According to Port Authority officials, the chunk of steel awarded to Mount Laurel Fire Station 362 is the largest piece that has been, and will be given out, to any of the approximately 1,000 recipients from throughout the world. It is a 17-foot, 800 pound steel I-beam recovered from the World Trade Center wreckage.

Mount Laurel memorialized the 10th anniversary of 9/11 at Laurel Acres Park with an unveiling of the refurbished Veterans' Memorial and the presence of the Mount Laurel Fire District’s 17 ft., 800 lb. piece of the steel from the World Trade Center (shown above).

In contrast, the chunk in the Air Victory Museum exhibit weighs only 9-1/2 pounds, and consists of two bent pins mounted on an 8” x 10” piece of steel. (Click here for page on the dedication of the Air Victory 9/11 Memorial).

Mansfield Township

The Mansfield chunk is a 5-foot curved section in possession of the Franklin Fire Company #1.

On 9/11/2011, in Medford Lakes, Todd Memorial Park was re-dedicated, with the 9/11 memorial serving as the garden centerpiece.

Medford Lakes – Station 317

Todd Memorial Park, Stokes Road

The Maple Shade artifact from the World Trade Center was displayed officially for the first time during ceremonies on Sunday, 9/11/2011. There was a procession down Main Street starting at Fellowship Road, with a Maple Shade Fire Department truck with a platform holding the artifact from the World Trade Center. Ceremonies were held at Gazebo Park.

In addition to the ten memorials incorporating World Trade Center steel, Burlington County dedicated a “teamwork” memorial in 2006 inspired by the heroic response to the events of 9/11/01 and paying tribute to firefighters and emergency services personnel, past and present. It is located at the Burlington County Emergency Services Center in Westampton, which also has a piece of World Trade Center steel.

Also, in Memorial Park, Marlton, there is a memorial to Burlington County resident, LeRoy Homer, First Officer of Flight 93 which crashed on 9/11 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

In Medford, on 9/11/2011, a mosaic bench, designed and created by Medford artists Diane Emerson and Suzanne Morgan, was dedicated as a permanent reminder of the innocent victims lost and those who tried to save them on that fateful day.

The bench is located in the setting of the township's 9/11 Memorial Park area dedicated in 2002

In Vincentown, Southampton Township, the Vincentown Emergency Squad #179 presented the residents of the community with this "Flag of Heroes", which (on the red stripes) "contains the names of the emergency services personnel who gave their lives to save others in the terrorist attacks of 9.11. Now and forever it will represent their immortality. We shall not forget them." The framed flag hangs in the Township Municipal Building on Route 206.

JML – 9/10/2011