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72% of Americans polled say 9/11 Cross belongs at the NYC memorial
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When workers were cleaning up after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, they found a steel girder that had been sheared on both sides to form a cross. As America cheered, workers raised the cross-shaped steel beam in the midst of the rubble as a symbol of hope. Now an atheist…
Ground Zero Cross on the Move Again
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Beliefnet News Editor
NEW YORK (RNS) The Cross at Ground Zero was one of thousands of I-beams used to construct the iron skeletons of the World Trade Center towers. This one fell from the fiery, apocalyptic heavens during the 9/11 terror attacks and stuck upright in the ground, in a field of similar but smaller crosses. The iconic…
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