A Duenweg trucking company is transporting a piece of American history to be used in a memorial to the victims of the World Trade Center disaster.
On Thursday, a truck pulling a flatbed trailer with R&R Trucking Inc., stopped at its headquarters in Duenweg to showcase the steel beams it was hauling from New York to Washington state.
These weren't normal steel beams. They were beams from the rubble left behind from the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that took down the Twin Towers and left 2,605 dead in its wake in New York City.
The truck hauling the steel beams has received an escort through Missouri by members of the Missouri Highway Patrol, as well as riders with the Patriot Guard motorcycle crew and local sheriff deputies.
The steel beams are wrapped in American flag donated by Joplin Tent Rental Co., and are under 24-hour security.
