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The Wisconsin 9/11 Memorial will be a space of reflection and education to remember those we lost and those who served on September 11th, 2001.

With a beam of steel recovered from the North Tower of the World Trade Center as its center piece, the memorial will serve to honor those lost on 9/11/01.

11/27/2025

Here at the Wisconsin 9/11 Memorial we are so thankful for those throughout the years who have continued to support us and our mission. We are very thankful for the opportunity to continue to educate the future generations about 911 and its impact.

We are also aware the holidays can be a very hard time for many families.
A empty chair around the table.
A voice you long to hear, a hug you’d give anything to have.

As we enter another holiday season, let us take a moment to honor those whose holidays are forever marked by the loss of family and friends.

We invite all of you to reflect on the kindness and strength that can still be found, even in the face of tragedy.

Together, we can find hope in our shared humanity and remember the resilience that unites us all.

Join us in honoring these memories this coming Holiday season.

11/20/2025

November 20th
Today we remember Wisconsin born Kirsten Lail Thompson Christophe on what would have been her 64th birthday today.

Christophe was killed at the site of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11th, 2001. She was 39 years old.

She left behind a loving husband and a young daughter who turned 1 year old on September 13th of that year.

“Born in Racine, WI, Kirsten Christophe grew up in Chicago. She graduated from Michigan State University in 1983 and received her law degree from DePaul University in Chicago in 1986.

She met her husband in 1994 in a bar review course they took when studying for the New York State bar exam. They were married the following year. Last year, they had a daughter, Gretchen Daugmar Christophe.
‘She was just like my angel,’ Mr. Christophe said of his wife. ‘She was an excellent mother. She was a brilliant spouse. Perfect.’
Mr. Christophe marveled at how his wife was able to excel at everything she did.
‘She was extremely, extremely organized,’ her husband said. ‘She was finding time for everything. She was able to manage everything.’ “

Today and everyday we remember those lives taken on September 11th, 2001 and the families they left behind.

11/13/2025

Support the Memorial through Jeff's Spirits On Main's Annual Whiskey Raffle!

We're honored to be the beneficiary of Jeff's Spirits on Main's annual Whiskey Raffle this year! This is a great opportunity to add some fantastic bourbon to your collection while supporting the Wisconsin 9/11 Memorial & Education Center.

Here's how it works:
- Sign up in person at Jeff's Spirits on Main in West Bend now through December 5th at 5pm
- $5 cash donation per entry (only one entry per person)
- Drawing takes place Saturday, December 6th, 2025 from 9am-2pm
- Winners will be texted and called to select from available bottles

Your $5 donation will help us to maintain the Memorial and build the new Museum & Education Center.

A huge thank you to Jeff and the team at Jeff's Spirits on Main for choosing to support our mission!

Stop by their store to enter and good luck to everyone participating!

ALSO: While you're there, purchase a bottle of Larrikin Bourbon - a wonderful veteran owned, veteran distilled bourbon. A portion of each purchase goes to the Memorial.

11/11/2025

November 11th
We honor Veterans Day.
About the memorial: The Veterans’ Area
The Veterans’ Area pays tribute to Washington County veterans who served in the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard. A memorial bench honors Kewaskum native Einor Ingman Jr., a Korean War Medal of Honor recipient.
Today on Veterans Day 2025, we take time to honor and remember our veterans who have selflessly dedicated themselves to our nation’s security and our freedoms.
We are grateful for our veterans bravery and service to our country.
To learn more about the Wisconsin 9/11 Memorial’s segments and symbolism please visit our website

10/29/2025

National First Responders Day. This day is dedicated to honoring the bravery and service of first responders, including police officers, firefighters, paramedics, EMTs, and 911 dispatchers.

We remember all those who selflessly responded on 9/11, the brave hero’s who rescued so many and paid the ultimate sacrifice.

We will continue to honor and remember all first responders past and present.

10/27/2025

About the Memorial: the Teaching Podium Bases
The Teaching Podium Bases have been fashioned to remind visitors of the tridents that were the signature architectural element at the bases of the Twin Towers.
Victims killed at the site of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York with ties to the state of Wisconsin:
Kristin L. Christophe was born in Racine, WI.
Kristin was on the South Tower’s 104th floor.
She was 39 years old.
Kevin Francis Cleary was a graduate of the UW Madison.
Kevin was on the 84th floor of the South Tower.
He was 38 years old.
Ramzi A. Doany was raised in MKE and attended UWM.
Ramzi was on the 93rd floor of the North Tower.
He was 35 years old.
Andrea Lyn Haberman was born in MKE and attended Kewaskum schools. She was a graduate of St. Norbert in De Pere, WI.
Andrea was in New York City on a work trip for a Carr Futures meeting on the 92nd floor of the North Tower.
She was 25 years old.
John Partrick Hart was born in Eau Claire, WI and a graduate of the UW Eau Claire.
John was in the South Tower of the World Trade Center to attend a presentation on the 95th floor.
He was 38 years old.
Scott Michael Johnson was born in Racine, WI.
Scott was on the 89th floor of the South Tower.
He was 26 years old.
Ann Nicole Nelson was born in Ashland, WI and attended Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam.
Ann was on the 101st floor of the North Tower.
She was 30 years old.
Jason Daniel Oswald was born in Merrill, WI.
Jason was on the 101st floor of the North Tower.
He was 31 years old.
Michelle L. Robotham was born in Chippewa Falls, WI.
Michelle was on the South Tower’s 105th floor.
She was 32 years old.
Daniel W. Song was born in South Korea but was raised in the Appleton area of WI and attended Appleton East High School.
Daniel was on the he 101st floor of the North Tower.
He was 38 years old.
Gregory K**a Bruno Wachtler was born in MKE, WI.
Gregory was on the 93rd floor of the North Tower.
He was 25 years old.
To learn more about the Wisconsin 9/11 Memorial’s segments and symbolism please visit our website

10/22/2025

October 20th
From summer to fall: the Trellis Towers.
The Clematis Trellis Towers are representative of the World Trade Center Towers. Sweet Autumn Clematis blooms in September—perfectly timed to the events of September 11th.
Seen here are the Trellis Towers in early November compared to them during their summer season here in Wisconsin.
“The Twin Towers
The trellis towers are for us to reflect on the fallen Twin Towers and the volunteers who toiled at Ground Zero in New York City to deconstruct the World Trade Center site.
Many of these workers succumbed to cancers and other illnesses as a result of their exposure to toxins at the site.
Sweet Autumn Clematis was chosen because it flowers in September.
Clematis also symbolizes perseverance because of its ability to aggressively climb over anything.”
May the Sweet Autumn Clematis be a reminder to never stop climbing even during difficult times.
Donations can be made to support the Wisconsin 9/11 Memorial maintenance and up keep so our community can continue to keep the promise to remember the victims, honor those who responded, celebrate the resilience of our communities and educate future generations.
To learn more about how you can support the Wisconsin 9/11 Memorial please visit our website and follow the tab “support” and then “donate.”
https://www.wisconsin911memorial.com/ or link in bio.

10/17/2025

What a night!

Thank you Tunnel to Towers Foundation AM 620 News Radio, Mike Nichols, Delta Defense and Moraine Park Technical College for an incredible evening.

Even though we are unable to bring back the victims of 911, we can still honor them by hearing their stories through the survivors of that horrific day, and through those that came to their aid.

You can still visit the Visit the Tunnels to Towers exhibit Moraine Park Technical College in West Bend from 3 -7 pm today!

10/16/2025

About the memorial: Red Granite Ring

The learning centers are ringed by red granite, Wisconsin’s state stone. Surrounding the granite is a ring of Callery pear trees, a reflection of the Survivor Tree seedling.

To learn more about the Wisconsin 9/11 Memorial’s segments and symbolism please visit our website https://www.wisconsin911memorial.com/symbolism-of-the-memorial/

10/14/2025

About the Memorial: the Flight Path Map

The Southeast Learning Station educates visitors about the flight paths and timeline of the terrorist attacks.

On the morning of September 11th, 2001 four passenger airplanes were hijacked mid flight. Those flights were: American Airlines Flight 11, American Airlines Flight 175, United Airlines Flight 77 and United Airlines Flight 93.

All but one of the planes were flown into their intended targets. All passengers and crew perished from all four planes.

American Airlines Flight 11 departed Logan International Airport at 7:46am. It was deliberately flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center at approximately 8:46am. 87 innocent passengers and crew members were killed.

American Airlines Flight 175 departed Logan International Airport at 8:14am. It was deliberately flown into the South Tower of the World Trade Center at approximately 9:02am. 60 innocent passengers and crew members were killed.

American Airlines Flight 77 departed Dulles International Airport at 8:20am. It was deliberately flown into the Pentagon at approximately 9:37am. 59 innocent passengers and crew members were killed.

United Airlines Flight 93 departed Newark International Airport at 8:42am. The passengers and crew were able to prevent the hijacker’s from reaching their target. The flight ultimately crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania at approximately 10:03am. 40 innocent passengers and crew members were killed.

Those passengers and crew who were brutally murdered came from all walks of life; They were as young as 2 years old, traveling with her parents to Disneyland. Middle schoolers on a field trip. A WW2 veteran in his 90s. People traveling for business. Mothers and fathers trying to make it to their children’s wedding. Pilots and flight attendants at work. And some passengers just wanted to go home.

May we continue to remember these victims and every victim from that Tuesday morning back in September 2001.

To learn more about the Wisconsin 9/11 Memorial’s segments and symbolism please visit our website https://www.wisconsin911memorial.com/symbolism-of-the-memorial/

10/12/2025

Today we remember Milwaukee resident, Janice M. Scott on what would have been her 71st birthday. Scott was a victim at the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001. She was 46 years old.

Janice Marie Scott was born on October 12, 1954 in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1955, her mother moved the family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she attended the local public school until her early teen years. Janice then moved with her family in the early 1970s to Colorado Springs, Colorado where she graduated from Harrison High School.

In 1975, Janice met Abraham Scott, a native of Beaufort, South Carolina, who was assigned as a 2nd Lieutenant to the 4th Finance Company on Fort Carson adjacent to Colorado Springs, Colorado. Janice and Abraham were married on December 27, 1976. Two years later, the couple was blessed with the birth of their first child, Crystal.

In December 1978, the family moved to Fort Benjamin Harrison, where Janice began to embark upon her career with Indiana National Bank in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The family then moved to Fort Rucker, Alabama in July 1979.

In August 1982, the family moved to Heidelberg, Germany, where Janice took courses at the Heidelberg campus of the University of Maryland. She entered the Federal Government workforce as a check control officer with Army Finance Office in Switzingen, then as an accountant with the European Army Accounting Office in Leiman, Germany.

During the mid-1980s, the family moved to the greater metropolitan area of Washington, DC, where Angel entered their lives. It did not take Janice long to re-enter the government workforce. The Army Personnel Command in Alexandria, Virginia hired her in 1987 as an assistant budget officer. She then acquired a Budget Officer position in 1989 with Resource Services Washington of the Office of Assistant Administration in the Pentagon.

Janice was promoted in June 2001, as a Budget Team Leader with Resource Services Washington. She was employed by this organization when the tragedy occurred on September 11, 2001.

Today and everyday we remember those lives taken on September 11th, 2001 and the families they left behind.

10/10/2025

About the Memorial: the Ascension Sculpture

The “Ascension” sculpture, designed by Susan Falkman, memorializes the fallen and honors the first responders at the Twin Towers.

“ASCENSION

We chose white marble, a material long used to memorialize the fallen and the heroic, to honor the first responders at the Twin Towers.

The two towers being consumed by flames resemble the spired of a cathedral.

The stone carved to represent those flames is rising upwards. The flames ascending became uplifting energy carrying the spirit of those who sacrificed their lives aiding others on 9/11.

‘I wanted the sculpture to visually relate to the event and to transform the loss and horror to hope rising, the uplifting power of transformation.’

Susan Falkman, Sculptuor
June 13, 2021”

Over 400 first responders were killed on September 11th 2001.

At the site of the World Trade Center in New York 343 firefighters, 23 police officers, and 37 Port Authority officers lost their lives responding to the attacks.

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officer died when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

And 55 military personnel died at the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia.

To learn more about the Wisconsin 9/11 Memorial’s segments and symbolism please visit our website https://www.wisconsin911memorial.com/symbolism-of-the-memorial/

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1308 Fond Du Lac Avenue
Kewaskum, WI
53040

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Tuesday	6am - 10pm
Wednesday	6am - 10pm
Thursday	6am - 10pm
Friday	6am - 10pm
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