Kabul International Airport 9/11 Memorial

Location: Kabul, Kabul Province, Afghanistan

Dedication Date: September 11, 2012

Creator: Commissioned by 438th Air Expeditionary Wing, U.S. Air Force

Medium: Metal (WTC fragment)

Description: Memorial featuring metal fragment from the World Trade Center, dedicated by unit of U.S. Air Force stationed in Afghanistan in remembrance of the victims of 9/11, particularly the first responders.

Text:

“PAPD
37

NYPD
23

FDNY
343

‘These acts
shattered
steel
but they
cannot
dent the
steel of
American
Resolve.’

G. W. Bush”

(Numbers refer to casualties in each department.)

Latitude & Longitude: 34.565953, 69.21253