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Jun 27, 2008 12:10 pm US/Central
DFW 9-11 Airline Employees Memorial Taking Shape
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9/11 Flight Crew Memorial.com
A memorial to pilots and flight attendants who died in the 9-11 attacks is taking shape in the flight path of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
The 18-foot-high bronze work will depict two pilots, two flight attendants and a young passenger.
Thirty-three crew members were killed when terrorists hijacked and crashed two American Airlines flights and two United Airlines flights on Sept. 11, 2001.
One of the organizers of the memorial, American Airlines flight attendant Valerie Thompson, said the project is designed to honor crew members whose efforts to stop the hijackers and alert authorities she believes have been mostly overlooked.
"They were the very first responders in the day of 9-11," Thompson said Friday. "Those were our heroes."
The memorial is at the intersection of two major streets in Grapevine, home to many airline employees stationed at nearby Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
The memorial will be dedicated July 4 at a ceremony that organizers say will include families of the dead crew members.
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