Wreaths placed at Parkersburg’s expanded 9/11 memorial
From left, Parkersburg Firefighters 1st Class Kevin Perry and Mason Wolfe, Police Patrolman B.B. Wise and Patrolman 1st Class B.A. Gardener place wreaths at the city's expanded 9/11 memorial Friday morning. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
From left, Parkersburg Firefighters 1st Class Kevin Perry and Mason Wolfe, followed by Fire Chief Jason Matthews, carry a wreath to the city's expanded 9/11 memorial Friday morning, with city police officers doing the same, during a brief ceremony marking the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
Parkersburg police officers and firefighters salute at the city's expanded 9/11 memorial Friday afternoon as city employees, officials and guests look on during a brief ceremony marking the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
From left, Parkersburg Firefighters 1st Class Kevin Perry and Mason Wolfe, Police Patrolman B.B. Wise and Patrolman 1st Class B.A. Gardener place wreaths at the city's expanded 9/11 memorial Friday morning. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
From left, Parkersburg Firefighters 1st Class Kevin Perry and Mason Wolfe, followed by Fire Chief Jason Matthews, carry a wreath to the city's expanded 9/11 memorial Friday morning, with city police officers doing the same, during a brief ceremony marking the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
Parkersburg police officers and firefighters salute at the city's expanded 9/11 memorial Friday afternoon as city employees, officials and guests look on during a brief ceremony marking the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
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PARKERSBURG – The annual wreath-laying by Parkersburg police and firefighters for the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks took place Friday morning at the city’s expanded 9/11 monument. It includes two stamped concrete squares marking the scaled footprints of the World Trade Center towers that fell that day. On the space for the South Tower is a monument made with a beam from the debris donated by the family of Mary Lou Hague, a Parkersburg High School graduate who was working in the tower and died that day. The memorial also includes a stamped area for the Pentagon at the top of the steps. It was designed by former City Engineer Adam Stout, who attended the wreath-laying with a number of city employees and officials.