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Click here to read a professionally published brochure on all three wreaths and the wreath project. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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I am a member of a bead flower Internet group that now has over 1300 members worldwide. After the 9/11 disaster, members from the United States as well as Switzerland, Australia, France and many other countries volunteered to make up flowers and leaves to contribute to memorial wreaths. We have made one wreath for each of the three sites. The Pentagon Wreath is now in a locked glass cabinet in the hallway leading to the new chapel in the Pentagon. The Pennsylvania Wreath is in the Liberty Museum in Philadelphia. The New York wreath is on temporary display at the Wheaton Museum of American Glass in Millville, New Jersey. A permanent home closer to Ground Zero is currently being sought.
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| | | This is the Pentagon wreath. It measures about 3 feet
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| Here is the wreath in its case in the Pentagon. This new hallway leads to the new chapel which commemorates those lost on 9/11/01. |
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The Pentagon Wreath |
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The Pentagon Wreath is on display inside the Pentagon as part of a
9/11 exhibit. While it is not accessible to the general public, it
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Pennsylvania Crash Site Wreath |
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The Flight 93 or Pennsylvania Crash Site wreath is now on display at
the
National Liberty Museum in the heart of historic Philadelphia.
The Museum was established to celebrate our nation's heritage of
freedom and the wonderful diverse society it has produced, using
glass to represent the fragility of freedom.
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The New York Wreath
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The New York wreath was the last to find its permanent home,
thanks mainly to the tireless efforts of Betty Listello, New Yorker
and Beaded Flower Group member whose dream had always been for this
wreath to be displayed at or near Ground Zero. Her patience,
persistence and determination to reach this goal was fulfilled when
the wreath was accepted by the World Trade Center Foundation to be
included in the permanent World Trade Center Memorial now under
construction. In September 2006 the wreath was moved from the
Wheaton Village Glass Museum in New Jersey where it had been on
display and transported to the World Trade Center Foundation, 1
Liberty Plaza, New York City, New York. The wreath has now been
mounted in a glass display case and is now on display in one of the
Foundation 's board rooms. While the rooms are not generally open to
the general public, it may be possible for anyone wanting to see the
wreath to make arrangements in advance by contacting the Foundation.
It will eventually be on public display. More information on the
Memorial Site and the Foundation can be found at their
web site.
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Betty Listello, NY
Wreath Coordinator and Jan Ramirez, Curator of the World Trade
Center Museum with the New York Memorial Wreath |
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The wreath as
it now looks in its permanent display case in a board room at the
WTC Museum Foundation Headquarters
Our grateful thanks to the
Wheaton Village and
Museum of American Glass for their care and display of the Wreath
long beyond the agreed-on schedule until it found its new home.
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