{"id":134808,"date":"2021-09-10T13:45:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T19:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=134808"},"modified":"2021-09-10T13:51:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T19:51:12","slug":"a-look-back-the-uccs-9-11-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=134808","title":{"rendered":"A look back: The UCCS 9\/11 Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2011, UCCS faculty and students and Air Force engineers from the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station (now the Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station) worked to design a memorial using World Trade Center artifacts for the 10th anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/110912-F-BI853-100-750x1125.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"134812\" data-link=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?attachment_id=134812\" class=\"wp-image-134812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/110912-F-BI853-100-750x1125.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/110912-F-BI853-100-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/110912-F-BI853-100-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/110912-F-BI853-100.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_7511-750x1125.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"134816\" data-link=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?attachment_id=134816\" class=\"wp-image-134816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_7511-750x1125.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_7511-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_7511-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_7511-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/110912-F-BI853-101-750x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"134815\" data-link=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?attachment_id=134815\" class=\"wp-image-134815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/110912-F-BI853-101-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/110912-F-BI853-101-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/110912-F-BI853-101-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/110912-F-BI853-101.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Images of the memorials at the former Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station (left and right) and the replica on the UCCS campus (center).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A team of UCCS engineering students designed the memorial, earning praise from the Homeland Security Foundation, which secured another artifact for UCCS to build a companion memorial on campus. The companion memorial points toward the larger version on Cheyenne Mountain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=4609\">Photo feature: UCCS and Cheyenne Mountain artifact display unveilings<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=4464\">Work continues on artifact display<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=4408\">Save the date: Sept. 12 artifact display dedication<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=1804\">UCCS to lead 9\/11 monument design<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=2141\">WTC beam unveiled before crowd<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=2479\">WTC Beam Transfer photo feature<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Special thanks to Sue McClernan and Peter Gorder for providing background on the 9\/11 memorials at UCCS and the Cheynne Mountain Space Force Station.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In 2011, UCCS faculty and students and Air Force engineers from the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station (now the Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station) worked to design a memorial using World Trade Center artifacts for <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=134808\" title=\"A look back: The UCCS 9\/11 Memorial\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":134819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/110912-F-BI853-100-750x1125-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-z4k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134808"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134825,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134808\/revisions\/134825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}