Do NOT search for this after dark. This is a daylight only cache. Please park in the designated parking lot. Do NOT drive down the loop road towards the cache. The cache is a tall cylindrical container similar in shape to a match stick case but much larger. As you are walking to find this cache, please stay to the outside of the paved road away from the training area. Also, if there is training going on when you visit, feel free to watch but be sure to keep a safe distance. Permission has been granted by the facility manager and the York County Assistant County Manager.
There is an unactivated geocoin in this cache. The nearby cache also has the same unactivated geocoin. If you claim the coin in this one, please let someone else get the coin from the other cache. Thanks.
As of the posting of this cache, it is 10 and a half years after terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
This cache and the memorial nearby are a way to remember not only the many lives that were taken that day but to also remember and honor the bravery and courage of the many heroes who gave of their time and expertise, unselfishly, without regard to their own safety, to save the nearly 25,000 that they could.
The Twin Towers, completed in 1973 as part of the World Trade Center complex, were brought down by terrorists who flew hijacked planes into the buildings causing them to explode forever changing the New York skyline and taking the lives of nearly 3000 people. It took 99 days to totally extinguish all of the fires at what became known as Ground Zero. There was so much focus on the Twin Towers that some might not even know that there was a third building to crumble that day. This other large building went unnoticed because it wasn't hit by a plane. But due to the profound damage of the Twin Towers, this skyscraper also collapsed.
With approximately 185,101 tons of steel being hauled away from Ground Zero and after 8 months and 19 days, the clean up process ended with a somber ceremony. At the sound of a fire bell, thousands of people stood and watched as firemen, policemen, and other personnel made their way to an ambulance carrying a stretcher holding nothing but an American Flag and they placed it in the back. That flag represented those killed and never found. Following the ambulance was a flatbed truck carrying the last of the trade center ruins, a 50 ton steel beam, which was covered with a black cloth. Moments into the ceremony, Taps was played and there was flyover by NYPD helicopters, marking the end of the clean up efforts and putting the final death toll at 2,823. The remains of 1102 people were identified and only 289 bodies were recovered.
