Apex dedicates 9/11 memorial downtown
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>>> A SERVICE MEMORIAL IS A
FIXTURE IN THE CENTER OF
DOWNTOWN APEX.
>> PART OF WHAT MAKES THE MONTH
MAUNT SO SPECIAL -- MONUMENT IS
A PART OF A STEEL.
>>Reporter: JACK JE AND GERALD,
IT WAS -- JACKIE AND GERALD, IT
WAS A SPECIAL NIGHT IN APEX.
WHEN YOU WERE HERE AT 6:00 WE
COULD ONLY SHOW YOU AN OUTLINE.
BUT THIS IS ALL OF HIS GLORY.
200 PACKED THE FIRE STATION
ACROSS THE STREET AND DID WHAT
THEY CLOCK SAYS.
THEY TOOK TIME TO REM.
>> ?
>>Reporter: THIS SERVICE
MEMORIAL IN THE HEART.
DOWNTOWN APEX STANDS AS A SYMBOL
OF SACRIFICE AND HOME.
IT PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE HEROS WHO
FOUGHT ON THE BATTLE FIELD SINCE
9/11.
ELLEN LOST HER SISTER WHEN THE
NORTH TOWER COLLAPSED.
>> IT'S NOT TEN YEARS.
IT'S EVERY DAY, EVERY DAY, EVERY
DAY.
>>Reporter: COMMEMORATIVE BRICKS
LINED THE WALK WAY AND SHE SHOWS
US THE ONE SHE BOUGHT IN MEMORY
OF HER SISTER.
OTHERS COULDN'T HELP BUT TOUCH
THE BEAM ON TIPOFF TOP OF THE
MEMORIAL THAT -- THE TOP OF THE
MEMORIAL THAT WAS RECOVERED FROM
THE SOUTH TOWER.
>> WE CAN SEE IT DRIVING IN.
>>Reporter: AT THE DEDICATION
CEREMONY, RETIRED FIREFIGHTER
SHARED SOME OF WHAT HE WENT
THROUGH AS A FIRST RESPONDER ON
9/11.
>> WHEN WE GOT OFF OF THE EXIT,
THIS PLUME OF WHITE SMOKE THAT
YOU'VE ALL SEEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF
WAS JUST -- IT TOTALLY ENGULFE.
>>Reporter: LIKE THE 82ND
ACAPELLA ENSEMBLE, HE PRAISED
THE FIREFIGHTERS, EMS WORKERS,
THE ARMED FORCES, THE MEMORIAL
IS A BIDDING TRIBUTE TO THOSE
WHO SERVED.
>> IT MEANS THAT REGARDLESS OF
WHAT HAPPENS TODAY, WE CAN BUILD
AND BECOME BETTER TOMORROW.
AND THAT'S THE MESSAGE OF THIS
MEMORIAL F.
>>Reporter: DELUCA SAYS HE
WORKED GROUND ZERO FOR ABOUT
FOUR MONTHS.
HE AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO NORTH
CAROLINA ABOUT SEVEN YEARS AGO.
WHEN THEY VISIT THIS MEMORIAL
THEY WANT THEM TO TOUCH IT FOR
GOOD LUCK.
I'M DOING IT TONIGHT AND
PHOTOGRAPHER ZACK WILL DO THE
SAM THING.
>> I'LL HAVE TO PASS BY, KEN, I
SPENT NINE MONTHS DOWN