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Cross of steel from WTC goes to Pa.

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Published: Aug. 23, 2008 at 9:57 PM

SHANKSVILLE, Pa., Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Steel from the World Trade Center in New York, fashioned into a cross, was escorted across New Jersey Saturday to Shanksville, Pa.

The cross is to be set up at the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department.

One of the four airplanes hijacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, crashed in Shanksville after the passengers tried to retake it. The hijackers apparently planned to fly the plane into the U.S. Capitol or the White House.

In New Jersey, hundreds of people waited on highway overpasses on I-78 for the flatbed truck carrying the cross and its escort of motorcyclists and New York Fire Department vehicles, the New Brunswick Home-News-Tribune reported.

At one overpass in western New Jersey, the crowd included firefighters and emergency workers from three nearby towns as well as civilians. Many had U.S. flags.

The cross was scheduled to be dedicated Sunday morning.

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