The 2,500 pound, 18-foot long hunk of steel sat in place for more than 30 years. It once connected I-beams and supported cables and equipment inside a structure more than a 1,000 feet tall. But on September 11, 2001 the beam crashed to the ground as part of the wreckage of the World Trade Center following the worst terrorist attack in the history of the United States.
On April 26 that same beam, now a rusted, contorted piece of wreckage, was transported to its new home as a symbol of the tragic events that occurred on that day almost nine years ago.
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