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Show DAILY Sunday, May 25, 2008 HERALD A13 Families of 911 attack victims find solace in Pentagon site Steve VogeJ WE WASHINGTON been fitted with granite tops. Workers are connecting pipes and jets that will stream water through each basin, keeping the pool of water h each bench perpet moving. Lights are being installed to shine through the pools, illuminating the base of each bench. Workers will be testing the elaborate water works in coming weeks. Reflecting the urgency of the schedule, workers continued preparing the site even as family members wandered through. A crew with a forklift d lowered a stainless steel bench onto a cart, where it would be delivered to its spot. Another team drilled deep holes into a concrete basin to anchor a bench in place. At the south end of the site, an excavator scooped up dirt, grading the ground for an entrance to the memorial. Family members expressed delight at the work continuing around them. "1 love it that they're still working while we're here," said Wendy Ploger, who tost her father, Robert P. Ploger, in POST WASHINGTON Jona- than Fisher walked slowly, searching for a name Friday morning among the stainless steel benches laid out in perfect rows along the Pentagon's west wall. His feet crunched on the gravel as he stepped around concrete basins and the pipes that will create pools of flowing water under each bench at the Pentagon MemoriaL He bent to peer at the names etched on the benches. Then he spotted Gerald P. Fisher. "I finally found it," he told his wife. His father, known to friends and family as Geep, was a defense contractor for Booz Allen and Hamilton working at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. The Potomac, Md., man was among the 184 killed when terrorists flew a hijacked American Airlines jet into the building, passing directly over the spot where Jonathan Fisher now stood Fisher rubbed his hands slowly on the granite slab laid atop the steel bench. He sat on the bench, gingerly at first. Five feet away from him, a kneeling construction worker cut steel bolts with a power saw. But Fisher, lost in thought, seemed not to notice the racket. "This is the place where my father died," said Fisher, 36, of McLean, Va. "Seeing there is some place we can go to, a place to draw strength from, even though it's very upsetting to come to this place, it's very comforting." The Pentagon Memorial is to 1,200-poun- MELINA of some of those who died Memorial Friday, where Families be dedicated Sept. 11, the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Friday, at the start of the Memorial Day weekend, Fisher was among more than a dozen family members of victims gathered at the site, . dabbing tears and snapping pictures as they toured the me in Post MARAWashington the Sept. 1 1, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon tour the unfinished Pentagon benches commemorate the 184 victims. morial park. Construction crews are rushing to complete the work, weeks now working seven-da- y to make up for time lost to recent rains. "We're going to make sure it's done and done right and done on time," said Chris Hartzler, senior project manager for Balfour Beatty, the contractor. "This project has a lot of meaning for everyone on the job." The 184 benches, each honoring a victim, are in varying states of completion. On the southern side of the two-acr- e park, where the benches for the youngest victims will be, concrete basins sit atop footings. In the memorial's midsection, stainless steel benches have been installed atop the basins. The benches on the northern side, where Fisher's father is honored, have already the attack. Family members chatted with construction workers, who proudly showed off their work. "When they take the time to thank everyone who's working at the site, it goes a long way with the guys," said Hartzler, the project manager. About half of the 90 paper-bar- k maples planned for the memorial have been planted, scattered among the benches. The trees, now eight to 12 feet tall, will grow to 30 feet with large canopies of red foliage in the fall. LOOK WHAT'S NEW TODAY! Call Help ADOPT: A happily couple wishes to adopt a newborn. Will a provide caring, loving and secure home. Expenses paid. Please call Regina & Jason Aula Heft Wanted Mechanic Familiar w truck & construction equip. Call Sam American Fork , Storage Facility hiring On-sit- e Manager ' Couple Team. in 2 bd Live apt. Perform office facility mgmnt responsibilities in exchange for rent & utilities $300mo. Ideal for stay at home parent w working spouse, and others. Must be self starter and good with people. Sales or office experience a plus. FT, Tues-Sa- t Fax ... resumecover letter to or call EdHcaNoi Help N. GHANBARIAssociated Press Army Spc. Jason Timperio of Brookpark, Ohio, canvases Arlington National Cemetery as he places American flags at headstones in honor of Memorial Day, on Thursday. Veterans' burials continue nonstop at national cemeteries Joe Milicia ; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The RITTMAN, Ohio cracking of rifle fire silenced the twittering blue jays, blackbirds and killdeer. As members of the color guard lowered their rifles, the smell of bitter smoke drifted over the family and friends of former Army Sgt. Ellis Hale, a Vietnam War veteran who died of prostate cancer at age 59. Sniffles and gentle sobs accompanied a recording of taps. Moments after the final note, Sherry Hale walked down a increased number of Korean War and Vietnam veterans. Ohio Western Reserve, a expanse south of Cleveland, opened in 2000 and has about 11,000 veterans and dependents buried there. It has enough land to keep it open 92 more years and accommodate 273-ac- re a total of 106,000 burials. Thirty four veterans groups volunteer for services. Every -- seventh Thursday members of American Legion Post 548 from Louisville, Ohio, dressed in black coats, ties and pants with white belts, gloves and shoulder cords, come to pay curved brick walkway past the tribute to fellow veterans. One crisp spring morning, saluting line of representatives dozens of mourners for Hale of the country's past wars. more than filled the benches Head bowed, she clutched to inside a stone open-ai- r shelter her c)wst the American flag tucked into a wooded corner. that covered her husband's Several jumped as the seven casket. The scene at the Ohio members of Post 548 fire the Western Reserve National first of three volleys. The shell Cemetery 'is repeated nationwide more than 100 times a casings faintly ping and clatter as they tended on the brick day. Military veterans are walkway. being buried at such a rapid rate that national cemeteries "Every time I fire, I say This is for you,"' says Navy veteran use heavy equipment to make Dave Scanlon, choking up room "We're still in growth mode while referring to his father, right now," said Bill Tuerk, un- "Skip," a World War II vetder Secretary for memorial af- eran who died in 1999. Ohio Western Reserve averfairs at the. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. "We're in a ages 7 12 burials a day. The busiest national cemetery is very high demand time period Riverside National Cemetery, i and we're trying to respond about 60 miles east of Los to it.". An average of 1,800 vetAngeles. It averages about 30 burials, followed by Florida erans die each day, and 10 National Cemetery, 50 miles percent of them are buried in the country's 125 national cem- north of Tampa. Third busiest is Calverton eteries, which are expected to National Cemetery, about 50 set a record with 107,000 intermiles east of Manhattan, alments, including dependents, this year. And more national though it has handled as many as 55 burials in a day, said cemeteries are being built. Michael Picerno, director of The peak year for veterans' Calverton National Cemetery deaths will be either 2007 or 2008, Tut'i k said. An estimated in New York. To accommodate so many (Wli.OlH) veterans died in 2007. burials, hundreds of crypts are While many World War II veterans are dying, so are an prcpluced at Calverton, then ' covered with dirt and grass. When it comes time for a burial, the sod is cut away, the crypt opened and the casket lowered in. Six new national cemeteries are under construction under a fiscal year 2008 budget of $167.4 million, triple the previous year. It's the largest number of cemeteries constructed at one time. Despite handling burials at an assembly-lin- e pace, the National Cemetery Administration has the highest customer satisfaction score of any federal government agency and any private sector company, according to the University of Michigan's American Customer Satisfaction Index. It tops companies such as Heinz, Amazon.com, and Hershey's. of "We are the fact that with each family we get one chance to get it right," Tuerk said. Part of streamlining the process involved holding services at committal shelters open-ai- r, structures instead of graveside. Calverton has seven shelters; Western Reserve has two. After taps, two uniformed members of an Army honor guard, wearing white gloves, perform the third and final ritual the folding of the flag. They make each of the tradigazebo-lik- BOOKKEEPER Waited (PTFT) Child Care Preschool Teacher. PT Positions avail. Working with children ages Must have HS diploma, Willing to do training, working wgrt Preschool that offers Child care benefits. 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