9/11 Memorial

The 9/11 Memorial in Florence Veterans Park holds a block of limestone from the Pentagon, damaged in the attack of September 11, 2001. Alex set the stone inside a frame of nested steel pentagons, raised on two tall steel columns.

Colonel Barry Wingard brought the fragment to Florence, and the steel frame was welded at the city’s ESAB plant. The memorial was dedicated on September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary of the attacks, and on each solstice the rising sun catches it.

Pictured: Alex with South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and Barry Wingard at the memorial.

The memorial is one of the stops on the Alex Palkovich Sculpture Trail mapped by Visit Florence.