First 9/11 memorial will be open 24 hours a day

Published September 11, 2008 4:00am ET



The memorial honoring the 184 people who were killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon will open tonight after a morning dedication ceremony.

The first national memorial dedicated to those killed in the four hijacked-airline attacks consists of 184 memorial cantilevered benches, honoring the 59 people aboard American Airlines Flight 77 and the 125 in the Pentagon who were killed in the attack.

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