The Portsmouth Police Department is receiving an 8-foot steel beam from the wreckage of the World Trade Center to form the centerpiece of its own Sept. 11 memorial.
A police motorcade is taking the 1,100-pound I-beam up Interstate 95 and into Portsmouth on Wednesday, Sept. 2. It will be on display at the police department for a few hours before being safely secured.
Chief Stephen DuBois plans to be tweeting the motorcade's progress. The beam is expected to reach Portsmouth mid-afternoon Wednesday.
Another beam from the World Trade Center is part of a memorial in Hudson, New Hampshire.
