{"id":282376,"date":"2026-09-09T18:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282376\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:08:09","slug":"9-11-memorial-moves-through-pennsylvania-in-profound-procession-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282376\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 Memorial moves through Pennsylvania in profound procession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Pennsylvania &#8212; It&#8217;s a moving memorial: a sculpture of two hands grasping a piece of the rubble that came down on September 11, 2001.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tuesday, all hands were on deck to move it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The sculpture, designed by Sassona Norton, was originally located at the Montgomery County Courthouse. It was later moved to the Emergency Operations Center in Eagleville due to construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">However, this new location provided no access for the public to view the gripping piece of art.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The decision was made to move it to its new home at Elmwood Park in Norristown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The relocation effort was led by the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners and other public officials in partnership with local police and fire personnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Local laborers such as members of Ironworkers Local 405 also dedicated time to moving the massive monument.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They also planned a dedication ceremony on Friday, September 11, 2026 at 10:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Watch the video above to see powerful images from the profound procession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Pennsylvania &#8212; It&#8217;s a moving memorial: a sculpture of two hands grasping a piece of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[115842,8589,200,66184,28,30,29,24001],"class_list":["post-282376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-9-11","tag-memorial","tag-montgomery-county","tag-moves","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}