Museum Honors National Volunteer Week
The 9/11 Memorial will honor National Volunteer Week with an information table on the Memorial plaza, live talks given by Museum docents and special activities for our volunteers.
More Tributes Featured on Museum Interactive
More Tributes Featured on Museum Interactive
The IBEW sticker is one of the new Last Column tributes that is being featured on the interactive touchscreens in Foundation Hall. (Photo: Jin Lee)
The Last Column was the final steel beam ceremonially removed from Ground Zero, marking the formal end of the nine-month recovery effort following the 9/11 attacks. Standing 36 feet high, the Last Column – which is on view in the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s Foundation Hall – is covered with mementos, memorial inscriptions and missing posters placed there by ironworkers, rescue workers and others after 9/11.
Museum visitors can learn more about the different Last Column tributes using interactive touchscreens. This week, the Museum has added information about the following tributes:
• United Airlines sticker: A small sticker placed beside large orange letters reading “FDNY 343” bears the 2001 logo of United Airlines and was likely placed on the Last Column to commemorate the 16 crew members and 84 passengers killed aboard two United Airlines flights on 9/11.
• IBEW sticker: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) member Kevin Flynn affixed a sticker to the Last Column to honor the 21 members of IBEW who were working at the World Trade Center and killed on 9/11.
• Memorial poster for firefighter Gary Paul Geidel: A firefighter for NYC Fire Department Rescue Company 1 for nearly 20 years, Geidel was killed in the North Tower on 9/11. While working on the site, his brother wore a helmet displaying a photograph of his missing brother – the same image as the one on his Last Column memorial poster.
• PAPD Team Romeo Marking: Team Romeo was a group of retired Port Authority Police Department officers who aided in recovery efforts following 9/11. The name came from the retired status of its members, employing the phonetic alphabet traditionally used for radio transmissions. “Romeo” stands for the letter “R.”
• OSHA markings: The Manhattan office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) located on the top floor of 6 World Trade Center was severely damaged on 9/11. OSHA was one of the federal agencies active at Ground Zero. Several staff members signed the Last Column before its removal.
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