{"id":313110,"date":"2021-07-31T19:59:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T16:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/9-11-memorial-feared-missing-from-bagram-located-in-upstate-new-york\/"},"modified":"2021-07-31T19:59:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T16:59:12","slug":"9-11-memorial-feared-missing-from-bagram-located-in-upstate-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/9-11-memorial-feared-missing-from-bagram-located-in-upstate-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"#9\/11 memorial feared missing from Bagram located in upstate New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#9\/11 memorial feared missing from Bagram located in upstate New York<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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A piece of the World Trade Center which became a beloved 9\/11 memorial at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan \u2014 and was feared missing when American troops abruptly left the country \u2014 is safe and sound in upstate New York, The Post has learned. <\/p>\n

A group of Queens veterans<\/a> who arranged to have the 10-foot-tall, 900-pound steel girder, emblazoned with \u201cWTC\u201d and \u201c9 11 01,\u201d donated to US troops in Afghanistan in 2010, raised the alarm last month when no one seemed to know its location. <\/p>\n

\u201cEven people at The Pentagon didn\u2019t know where it was,\u201d said Claudia Thomas, a 9\/11 first responder and former civilian contractor in Afghanistan, who was among those trying to determine the fate of the beam. <\/p>\n

The 82nd Airborne commanded the base when the Breezy Point, Queens, chapter of the Sons and Daughters of America donated the relic. At the time, the veterans believed the beam would wind up in the 82nd\u2019s museum in Fort Bragg, N.C., after US operations in Afghanistan ceased.<\/p>\n

US troops hastily pulled out of Bagram in July, allowing looters to swoop in. When no one at Bagram or Fort Bragg could find the beam, the Queens veterans feared the worst.<\/p>\n

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Col. Stephen Ryan (left) and retired U.S. Army Col. Jeff Cantor pose with the beam at Bagram. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The relic of the 9\/11 attack is safe and sound at Fort Drum in New York state.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe were afraid we\u2019d see it on TV with the knuckleheads from the Taliban jumping up and down on it,\u201d said former NYPD officer Bob Crowley, who helped lead the effort to donate the beam to Bagram.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It served as a powerful reminder of the mission to root out terrorism and prevent another 9\/11 attack, said Col. Stephen Ryan, a Breezy Point native and US Army reservist who served at Bagram.<\/p>\n

But the piece of 9\/11 history has actually been sitting securely on American soil, at Fort Drum, near Watertown, NY. <\/p>\n

Turns out the 10th Mountain Division, which commanded the base after the 82nd, shipped the beam back to its headquarters in upstate New York in 2015 \u2014 unbeknownst to its donors, to the 82nd Airborne or to military leaders contacted by The Post.<\/p>\n

\"Retired
Retired Col. Stephen Ryan (red polo shirt and veterans cap) and retired NYPD cop Bob Crowley (grey t-shirt), along with the help of Ret. USMC Kevin McCann (blue polo shirt), Ret. Army Charlie Cannon (light green t-shirt and veterans cap), Col. Thomas Sullivan (white polo shirt), Ret. NYPD Det. Brian Quinn (mustache and black print button down shirt), and Ret. NYPD Det. John Moran (grey t-shirt) were working hard to locate the memorial when it was feared to be lost.<\/figcaption>
Matthew McDermott for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The beam was installed at Fort Drum in a formal ceremony, said base spokesman Lee Reynolds, and lies in Clark Hall next to a piece of landing gear from one of the aircraft that struck the Twin Towers during the terror attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince that time it is the indoor focal point for the installation 9-11 ceremony,\u201d Reynolds added.<\/p>\n

Col. Ryan said he wished the process had been handled differently. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019re just glad it\u2019s back on US territory. I didn\u2019t care if it was on Route 66 or in Anchorage, Alaska. The people in Breezy Point are happ<\/a>y because it ended up here in New York state.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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