Event Education-9/11 Memorials

9/11 Memorials by Mike Ellicott

On 9/11, terrorists attacked the symbols of America’s Economic and Military Power and attempted to attack the symbol of our Political Power. The attacks destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City, severely damaged the Pentagon, and changed a field in Central Pennsylvania forever. Immediately following those attacks, impromptu memorials appeared to commemorate the 2.977 citizens of the World we lost. Over time, America erected permanent and thought-provoking Memorials.  Retired Army Colonel and Amateur Historian Mike Ellicott will discuss the history behind the 9/11 Museum and Memorial, The Pentagon 9/11 Memorial, and the Flight 93 Memorial, along with the surprising contribution of the former Fishkill Landfill on Staten Island.

Mike Ellicott is a retired Army Officer and a retired higher education facilities officer. He now has time to spend on his lifelong love of history and he and his wife Marilyn currently lead tours of the Gettysburg and Normandy Battlefields, Germany, where they lived for 14 years, and the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. He completed a twenty-six-year career in the Army Corps of Engineers, retiring as a Colonel and Commander of the Corps of Engineers’ Europe District in Frankfurt, Germany. He went on to a 16-year career in Higher Education Facilities Construction and Operations and retired again as the Vice Chancellor for Facilities Planning and Construction for the Texas Tech University System in Lubbock, TX. He earned Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Mechanical Engineering and taught engineering at the Military Academy at West Point and at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA. He was a Registered Professional Engineer in Virginia. Mike and Marilyn live in Collierville, TN. They have two sons, Mike Jr., also a retired Engineer Colonel, and Randy, a Hospital Facilities Compliance Specialist, and three grandchildren. He is the Past President of the Friends of Morton Museum in Collierville and a Director of the Engineers’ Club of Memphis.

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