In late September we spent a night at the Hilton Boston Logan Airport hotel before a Canada and New England cruise.
The Logan Airport 9/11 Memorial is located across the street from the hotel.
Before heading to the cruise ship, I took a walk around the hotel and visited the memorial. It is called The Place of Remembrance and was designed by Moskow Linn Architects of Boston.
(Both the hotel and the memorial can be reached by walking from the airport, or taking the hotel shuttle bus. )
The Logan Airport 9/11 Memorial contains landscaped paths that lead to a large glass cube.
Inside the glass cube, glass panels honor the passengers and crews of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175.
On September 11, 2001, these two flights departed Logan Airport for Los Angeles, but were hijacked by terrorists who crashed them into the World Trade Towers in New York.
From inside, visitors look up at a sky transformed by a prism of reflective panels by day; the cube glows with a soft light by night.
Also inside the cube are two glass panels containing the names of every person aboard both flights.
If you have a longer layover or an overnight stay, you can visit the Logan Airport 9/11 Memorial 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Signs in the airport direct you to the 9/11/ Memorial.
Do you remember exactly where you were on the morning of September 11, 2001?
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