{"id":396935,"date":"2026-09-11T14:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396935\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:36:10","slug":"american-legion-marks-9-11-anniversary-at-south-tampa-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396935\/","title":{"rendered":"American Legion marks 9\/11 anniversary at South Tampa memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The American Legion is holding a commemoration for the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks at the memorial on Patriots Corner in South Tampa on September 11, 2026. The event begins at 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The World Trade Center Memorial sits on Bayshore Boulevard near Bay-to-Bay. Its columns represent the Twin Towers and are built to scale and exact orientation \u2014 one one-hundredth the scale of the actual towers.<\/p>\n<p>The steel within the north tower column was recovered from Ground Zero. Wilder Architecture designed the sculpture.<\/p>\n<p>The memorial also functions as a sundial. The shadow of the steel beam on the concrete slab marks the duration of time from the first airplane&#8217;s impact on the North Tower to the subsequent collapse of the tower on September 11.<\/p>\n<p>The commemoration will continue at the American Legion Hall at 3810 W. Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, FL 33609, where the ceremony will include a reading of the names of every person killed during the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The public is welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789137370_455_CASEY.ALBRITTON.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Is the beach public or private property? Hotel owner goes head-to-head with City of St. Pete Beach in lawsuit<\/p>\n<p>The battle over a beach is now headed to federal court. St. Pete Beach is going head-to-head with a local hotel owner over the issue of who owns the sand.<\/p>\n<p>Is the beach public or private property? Hotel owner goes head-to-head with City of St. Pete Beach in lawsuit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The American Legion is holding a commemoration for the 25th anniversary of the September 11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[157180,158186,13683,158187,158185,585,30985,135,137,136,158188],"class_list":["post-396935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-9-11-anniversary","tag-american-legion-tampa","tag-bayshore-boulevard","tag-patriots-corner","tag-september-11-commemoration","tag-south-tampa","tag-sundial","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-world-trade-center-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}