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World Trade Center Wreckage Travels to Nixon Library
16 tons of debris will be displayed for a week to mark the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
A motorcade carrying 16 tons of World Trade Center wreckage and a damaged Ground Zero fire truck will travel under police escort to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda on Monday morning, library officials said.
The scorched wreckage will serve as the focal point of the library's weeklong 10th-anniversary remembrance of the 9/11 attacks.
The motorcade is scheduled to arrive at the Nixon Library around 10:30 a.m., after traveling down the 57 Freeway to Imperial Highway and Yorba Linda Boulevard.
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A public ceremony at 11 a.m. will include a blessing by clergy, patriotic choral presentations by local high schools, bagpipes and a tolling of bells to honor the dead, according to the Nixon Foundation.
The wreckage will remain on display 24 hours a day through Sept. 11. Additional ceremonies and events are planned.
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-- City News Service contributed to this story.
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