9/11 Memorials Around Us

David Ferrugio visits the “Waves of Flags” installation of nearly 3000 flags, one for each victim of 9/11, displayed on the hills of Pepperdine University against the backdrop of the construction from the Palisade fire on Thursday, Sept 11, 2025 at Malibu, Calif. Ferrugio’s father, David Frances Ferrugio, was one of the 9/11 victims who died on the 105th floor, tower 1 of the World Trade Center. (Fai Fong | The Corsair)

9/11 Memorial at City Hall Civic Plaza, Rosemead, Calif. on Wednesday, Sept 10, 2025. The sculpture consists of two hands made up of reflective cutouts of thousands of dove-like shapes holding a steel beam from the World Trade Center. (Fai Fong | The Corsair)

9/11 Memorial at Rexford Drive in Beverly Hills, Calif. On Wednesday, Sept 10, 2025. The twisted steel beam was salvaged from remnants of the World Trade Center. (Fai Fong | The Corsair)

A card left by a visitor on one of the flags in “Waves of Flags”, the annual installation of nearly 3000 flags, one for each victim of 9/11, at Pepperdine University, Malibu, Calif. on Thursday, Sept 11, 2025. (Fai Fong | The Corsair)

Waves of Flags, the annual installation of nearly 3000 flags, one for each victim of 9/11, displays on the hills of Pepperdine University on Thursday, Sept 11, 2025 at Malibu, Calif. The tradition was started by students in 2008. (Fai Fong | The Corsair)

9/11 Memorial at Rexford Drive in Beverly Hills, Calif. On Wednesday, Sept 10, 2025. The twisted steel beam was salvaged from remnants of the World Trade Center. (Fai Fong | The Corsair)

Sept. 11, 2025 - Following the tragic events that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, numerous memorial sites have been constructed across the U.S.  Los Angeles is home to at least four of these sites, in Rosemead, Beverly Hills, Manhattan Beach, and Elysian Park. Each site features a piece of steel beam from the remnants of the World Trade Center, honoring and remembering those who died in the Sept. 11 attacks.  

Tanya Kane and Rachael Callaway, tourists from Melbourne, Australia, stopped by the Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden to see the twisted steel. They previously visited the 9/11 Memorial in New York City, and their next stop was Chicago, flying out of Los Angeles the next day on September 11.  

In addition to the permanent memorials, each year Pepperdine University plants over 3,000 flags on the hills of Malibu to commemorate the lives that were lost. The “Waves of Flags”  installation was started by students in 2008.  

David Ferrugio, a visitor of the installation on Sept.11, 2025, had heard about it from a friend. It was Ferrugio's first time seeing the display, and he shared that his father, David Frances Ferrugio, worked at Cantor Fitzgerald and perished on the 105th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower.