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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (54287)	6/15/2006 4:32:28 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 59480

Work Begins on Sept. 11 Pentagon Memorial By Daniela Deane Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, June 15, 2006; 3:44 PM Cabinet members, politicians and friends and family of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks gathered at the Pentagon today to formally break ground for a memorial honoring the 184 people who lost their lives there nearly five years ago. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, choking back tears, delivered the invitation-only ceremony's keynote speech, telling the crowd of about 500 people, "This is where men and women became targets and were killed because they were free Americans." The Pentagon Memorial will have 184 cantilevered benches, one in memory of each victim of the terrorist attack on the Defense Department headquarters. Occupying nearly two acres, the memorial will be 165 feet from where American Airlines Flight 77 hit the building. About 80 maple trees will shade the memorial. "The individual benches will remind visitors that every one of those lives was special, with hopes cut short," Rumsfeld said. He talked of one 8-year-old girl on the flight, who died with her parents and her 3-year-old sister. "We remember her and we remember all who hallow this ground," Rumsfeld said. "We will never forget." About $10.8 million has been raised so far for the construction of the $22 million memorial, which is expected to be completed in September 2008. James J. Laychak, the president of the Pentagon Memorial Fund who lost a brother in the attack, assured the crowd that the rest of the money will be collected. "We will be successful," Laychak said. "We will raise the money we need to complete the memorial. And we will complete this great memorial. We owe it to our loved ones." Most of the money to build the memorial has come from private donations. The federal government recently gave the memorial fund a grant of nearly $1 million. Architects Julie Beckman and Keith Kaseman, who won a worldwide competition to design the memorial, also attended the groundbreaking under sunny skies on a warm late-spring day. The two were young, unknown New York architects when their design won a competition with more than 1,000 entries. They moved out of their tiny studio apartment on the Upper West Side nearly three years ago to an apartment in Old Town Alexandria to work on the memorial. The two are now engaged. Construction crews will now begin removing underground utilities and work on the installation of a system that will supply water for reflecting pools beneath each of the memorial benches.