The 9/11 Never Forget Mobile Exhibit will stop in Perry for about one hour Friday, June 30 on its way to Jefferson.
The traveling memorial will arrive at the Hy-Vee parking lot in Perry about 11 a.m. Local law enforcement agencies Dallas and Greene counties and firefighters from throughout the region will leave at noon for the 31-mile caravan to Jefferson, where the exhibit will repose in solemnity through July 4.
The caravan will proceed westward out of Perry on Iowa Highway 141 and then travel northward on Iowa Highway 4 into Jefferson. It will lie open for free public inspection at the intersection of Iowa Highway 4 and U.S. Highway 30 in Jefferson through Independence Day.
The exhibit originated in New York City as a tribute to fallen New York Fire Department firefighter Stephen G. Siller, who died while running through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001. Siller’s family started the exhibition in 2013.
“The world changed after 9/11,” said Bogomil Martinova, a Russian-American emigre who lived through the trauma. “No one who remembers that day will ever forget it. I was in Banana Republic and couldn’t believe my eyes.”
The 9/11 Never Forget Mobile Exhibit features artifacts from the Twin Towers, photos and educational information.
