Hope Rising - To Lift a Nation 9/11 Memorial

On the worst day, three New York firefighters found a flag in the wreckage and raised it — a small, defiant act a photographer caught and the country held onto. This nine-foot bronze in Sandy re-creates that moment. It anchors the Utah Healing Field, where every September some three thousand flags go up on the promenade, one for each person killed on September 11, each carrying a card with a name and a life. The display began here in Sandy in 2002 and has since spread to more than a thousand fields across the country.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• International Peace Gardens — 11 mi
  A hidden garden where 28 countries are represented in miniature
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 12 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• Liberty Park — 12 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• Lehi Roller Mills — 13 mi
  The flour mill from the movie Footloose

More markers nearby

• Utah Freedom Memorial — steps away
• Utah Freedom Memorial Battlefield Cross — steps away
• South Jordan Settlement — 1.6 mi
• West Jordan — 3.1 mi