A 9-11 memorial could come to Green Bay Two, stainless steel columns will stand on a granite-surfaced, pentagon-shaped foundation. The base will display the names of the World Trade Center victims. By Anna Krejci News-Chronicle A 34-foot-tall memorial resembling the World Trade Center could be erected along the Fox River in Green Bay before the year is over. Representatives of WTC 9-11 Pen-T Memorials Inc., a nonprofit organization that wants to build a memorial for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in every state and in Washington, D.C., requested the city's permission to construct Wisconsin's memorial at Leicht Memorial Park in Green Bay. The construction costs and expenses of the lighted memorial itself, built from World Trade Center debris, would be fully funded by donors working with WTC 9-11 Pen-T Memorials, Inc., and the city would be obligated to allow visitors to access the memorial free of charge. Green Bay would be the first city to have the memorial. Barb Jack, chairwoman of WTC Pen-T Memorials Inc., is from Wisconsin and wanted to first pioneer the project in her home state. Because of timing issues, the organization's attempt to have the Wisconsin memorial built in Madison failed, Jack said. Two, stainless steel columns will stand on a granite-surfaced, pentagon-shaped foundation. The base will display the names of the World Trade Center victims, and other engravings would pay tribute to first responders, the military and airlines involved in the Sept. 11 attacks and to men and women who currently protect the country. The monument would also contain names of people who died who were from Wisconsin, and the names of their families. Each of the 51 memorials across the country would have a 36-inch-long piece of beam from the World Trade Center that visitors could touch. A handicap accessible walkway would surround the memorial. Jack said the organization wants to show New York that the rest of the country was affected by the attacks. "Every heart in the world broke that day," she said. Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt said the memorial would be appropriate in Green Bay, especially in Leicht Memorial Park, an area that the mayor wants to be accessible to the public and set aside for city festivals. "We want to attract people (to the park)," he said, and added that the memorial would be one good way to do that. He will be working with other government bodies in attempts to realize the plans. Green Bay Ald. Guy Zima, chair of the city's park committee, said, "I think it is a perfect fit for our renewing downtown." It is near the Neville Museum and close to the city's East and West sides, he said. The City Council could discuss the memorial as early as the next council meeting.