captain ruda wrote these words. at an early planning meeting where they were trying to decide what would happen with this memorial, this quote was to aified as a preamble larger mission statement for what the memorial would become. when we came in from the outside of the visitor center and you are walking the flight path, as we did at the beginning, you a common field one day. some of the groupings of tribute items that have been left at the temporary memorial or at the permanent memorial, you have things that represent the rescue workers that responded at all of the sites, patches are a common form of item left year representing not just rescue workers but military. we have a strong connection here with people visiting that leave military items. haveat the end, we also items that were left here by the people who responded here. this is the shanksville fire department, a coat that would have been left. the original coat is in storage. this is a facsimile. see aiginal coat you can picture. we have the assistant fire