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Article: NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY INSTALLS SCULPTURE 'REMEMBERED' AT FORWARD, TOGETHER FORWARD MEMORIAL GARDEN
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 6, 2009
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DEKALB, Ill., Oct. 5 -- Northern Illinois University issued the following news release:
Standing nearly 18 feet tall, its quintet of flames interwoven toward the heavens, the final element of Northern Illinois University's Forward, Together Forward Memorial Garden is now in place.
Workers installed sculptor Bruce A. Niemi's "Remembered" last week in the front-and-center spot of the garden just east of Cole Hall, the site of the Feb. 14, 2008, tragedy.
Behind the sculpture is the reflection wall, five sections of red granite, each bearing the name of a student who lost his or her life. Young trees - the "living fossils" Dawn Redwoods and the Illinois state tree White Oaks - and benches ...