{"id":2284,"date":"2026-06-18T18:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tucsonmovingreport.com\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:34:46","slug":"world-trade-center-steel-beam-comes-to-arizona-for-9-11-remembrance-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tucsonmovingreport.com\/?p=2284","title":{"rendered":"World Trade Center steel beam comes to Arizona for 9\/11 remembrance tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<section>\n<p><b>SCOTTSDALE, AZ (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 A 21-foot steel beam from the World Trade Center\u2019s South Tower will be on display in Scottsdale on Wednesday as part of the Tunnels to Towers Steel Across America Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/tucsonmovingreport.com\/?p=2282\">Woman found dead in wash near Silverlake Road<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The beam weighs nearly 17,000 pounds and will be displayed at the USS Arizona Memorial Gardens at Salt River. The tour honors and remembers the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, which mark 25 years this year.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Blakeman, a board member of Tunnels to Towers and former deputy assistant to President George W. Bush, said the foundation\u2019s mission is grounded on remembrance and never forgetting the heroes of 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur board decided that we needed to do something important, especially for those who weren\u2019t even born at this time,\u201d Blakeman said.<\/p>\n<p>The beam will make two stops in Arizona. It will be at the Hall of Flame Museum from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. An evening event will be held on Pima-Maricopa Indian lands from 7 to 9 p.m. The evening event will be the tour\u2019s only Indigenous event and will include a traveling museum. Both events are open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The beam was given to Tunnels to Towers by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It came from the same tower where Stephen Siller, a firefighter and the foundation\u2019s namesake, responded and died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people may never get to New York, but we\u2019re going to go to them,\u201d Blakeman said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/tucsonmovingreport.com\/?p=2280\">Glendale Fire spotlights woman who saved girl after near-drowning<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tour started at Ground Zero and has visited Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where passengers brought down Flight 93, and the Booker Elementary School in Florida, where President Bush was on Sept. 11, 2001, when he learned of the attacks. After Arizona, the beam will travel to California and Mount Rushmore.<\/p>\n<p>Blakeman said the tour allows people to touch the beam and hear from heroes who were there that day.<\/p>\n<p>The Tunnels to Towers Foundation pays off mortgages, builds smart homes, helps homeless veterans, builds veterans\u2019 villages and pays college tuition for heroes\u2019 children. <\/p>\n<p><i>See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <\/i><i>Please click here to report it<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? 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