{"id":287527,"date":"2026-09-16T19:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287527\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T19:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:18:15","slug":"steel-beam-from-world-trade-center-stands-as-powerful-reminder-in-dickson-city-25-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287527\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel beam from World Trade Center stands as powerful reminder in Dickson City 25 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DICKSON CITY, Pa. \u2014 People across the country are remembering the September 11th attacks 25 years ago. In our area, a piece of the World Trade Center sits right in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the Dickson City Municipal Building is a steel beam from one of the Twin Towers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The piece recovered from Ground Zero was brought here back in 2016 after years of coordination.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those who work there say the piece never loses its impact, especially on the anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It always is a constant reminder. If you look closely, it has a picture of everyone that perished that day. And the other has all the names of everyone that perished; I know it&#8217;s very small. But they&#8217;re always here in thought and in memory,&#8221; said Cesare Forconi, Dickson City Borough Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the piece is always on display in the lobby of the building so everyone can pass by and remember the sacrifice made this day, 25 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DICKSON CITY, Pa. \u2014 People across the country are remembering the September 11th attacks 25 years ago. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-287527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287527","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=287527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}