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Oddly enough the Kent-Moore J 34914 CRT Tester is plentiful on e-Bay, have one on order. Wonder if it works.

Ron Thanks so much for the complete transcript. I had heard some of it over the years but never all of it. Thank you

Great. Thanks for the response. Never gave Riviera a thought. RJ

Yeah, that's me holding a camera. I tried get a shot without me showing up and get still get the writing so you might be able to read it but I couldn't. Those people who gave their lives on flight 93 may have saved our Whitehouse or Capital building through their bravery and courage. They truly were heros that stepped up to the plate when it counted.

A Memorial to 9/11 in Kingston, TN where I live,,, and the rest of the story. You all may already be tired of being bombarded with all the stories on TV today about 9/11 but I'm going to tell you about a memorial made of a 9900 pound steel I-beam that came from the World Trade Center and how it came to be in our small town of 5000 people. The memorial is in a small park across the lake from my house on TVA property. I can see it when I sit on my front porch. Every year on 9/11 a lot of people go to that park to look at the memorial and reflect on what happened on September 11, 2001. Today when I went there I was lucky enough to be there at the same time as a gentleman who helped erect that memorial. He told me the story of how Kingston was able to get a piece of the World Trade Center steel shipped all the way here from New York and turned into a 9/11 memorial. He told me Andrew Benson, the man who's picture is on the bronze plaque at the top of the memorial, worked at TVA's Kingston Power plant. Mr. Benson's father was a fireman in New York and had died as a result of the 9/11 attack so Mr. Benson started talking with TVA and other government officials about establishing a 9/11 memorial at the park for our area. Once TVA agreed to allow the memorial to be erected at the park on their property the ball started rolling to get the I-beam shipped here. Shipping costs were covered by TVA employee donations. He said our state representatives got on board with the project and made arrangements to obtain the I-beam from the World Trade Center. East Tennessee had already donated a brand new fire truck to the city of New York so our officials already had contacts there. He said the day the I-beam arrived on the flat bed truck, it and another I-beam just like it destined for another town in TN had been draped with huge American flags. The truck was escorted through TN by about fifty members of a Veterans Motorcycle club. All with American flags attached to their bikes. He said it brought tears to his eyes to see so many people there to honor a symbol of the tragedy our country had been through back on 9/11/2001. TVA employees supplied the labor and materials to build a base the 9900 pound I-beam sits on and to pour the concrete in the shape of a star around it. One man from each union craft took part in building the memorial. TVA supplied the machinery to build it and set it in place. Originally Mr. Benson's photo wasn't on the memorial. Only the plaque in the center of the I-beam was intended to be there. Sadly three weeks after this memorial was dedicated in a huge ceremony attended by fire departments from all over East TN, Mr. Benson was killed when he was working under his car. The jack slipped and he was crushed. The employees at TVA thought it was fitting to add a plaque with Mr. Benson's photo to honor him for all the hard work he had done to get the memorial erected. I will think of this story every time I look across the lake at this memorial. The I-beam and memorial look small in my photos but it is huge. The words on the bottom of the plaque says it all. "NEVER FORGET"