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AFA Honors Past & Present Heroes

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) - The Air Force Academy honored past and present heroes on the weekend of the 10-year anniversary of 9/11.

The Academy dedicated a permanent memorial on their campus made from a World Trade Center girder.

The base of the memorial is in the shape of a pentagon, inscribed with the words World Trade Center, The Pentagon and Shanksville, PA to denote the three places attacked on 9/11.

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