Americans have remembered Sept. 11 in years past by planting trees, raising flags and saying prayers at makeshift memorials. This year, NASCAR driver #72-Benny Gordon is going to the racetrack – in a custom-designed, Sept. 11 memorial car inscribed with the message, “Always Remember.” Gordon, co-owner of the North South Motorsports team, is racing a blue, black and white 2009 Ford fusion in a 43-car field at a NASCAR Nationwide Series race this Sept. 11 in Virginia at Richmond International Speedway. His Dubois, Pa., team – not far from the site of the memorial for United 93, one of four hijacked jetliners that crashed – wanted to raise awareness for the 9/11 memorial under construction at the World Trade Center site, which Gordon visited earlier this year.(Associated Press)(5-1-2009)
