Sept. 11 (UPI) -- A new memorial honoring those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks pays tribute to those who were sickened in the rescue and recovery effort and died.
The $1.3 million memorial at Point Lookout in Hempstead, N.Y.,a beach in the Long Island community 24 miles from the World Trade Center towers, where residents gathered to watch the towers fall, was unveiled on Friday. The memorial was scheduled to be formally dedicated Monday. The site includes granite plaques engraved with the names of those who died in the attack, a 30-foot tall piece of steel from the World Trade Center and a granite-engraved poem by New Yorker Walt Whitman.