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PHOTOS: Hopatcong Welcomes World Trade Center Steel

On Thursday afternoon, more than 50 people watched two Twin Towers steel beams arrive in Hopatcong. The artifacts will highlight the borough's 9/11 monument, to be unveiled on the 10th anniversary of the attacks.

Dawn J. Benko, Neighbor
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History arrived in Hopatcong on Thursday.

Police, firefighters and borough representatives traveled to John F. Kennedy Airport in the early morning. They returned with two steel beams from the World Trade Center.

The beams, , were unveiled before more than 50 people at .

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