This whole project is driven by a dream.  The night of Sept. 12, I had a dream of a beautiful memorial in New York City, where people all over the world came to grieve.... and remember.

        In this dream, I was walking along a dimly lit hallway.  On the walls were thousands of pictures of different people.  Underneath each photo was a name and the date:  Sept. 11, 2001.

        As I walked to the back of the building, the doors opened up to a beautiful courtyard.  When I walked into the courtyard, I was at the base of a pentagon shaped memorial.

        Thousands of names were on the walls, and at four of the five points where walls intersected were angel statues... each representing one of the four flights that were hijacked that day.

        At the fifth point was an eternal flame with the instructions that it be extinguished for only one 24-hour period per year - on September 11th.

        In the center of the courtyard was a statue of three firefighters raising a flag.  This vision was two days before the famous photograph was taken.

        Between the outside gate and the wall is a flower garden with thousands of flowers.  Each flower represents one name on the wall and one picture in the building.  In between the flowers are numerous flagpoles, with each flag representing a nation who had a casualty on Sept. 11.  The American flag is at the peak, right behind the eternal flame.

        As I awoke, that vision remained crystal clear to me, and I worked on forming the committee and filing the necessary legal paperwork immediately.

        Unlike other (unnamed) charities that are facing scrutiny for not allocating their funds to the intended purposes, We Remember USA operates with a stringent principal that we will keep our administrative costs to the lowest amount possible, with 90 to 95 percent of our funding dedicated to building this memorial, along with similiar ones in Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

        Looking at the history of memorials in our country, their intended purposes are to remember those who perished, and to seek healing from tragedy.  Monuments at Gettysburg Nat'l Military Park in Pennsylvania and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. have proven that.

        With the magnitude of  the tragedy of Sept. 11, there is no doubt in my mind that this project is needed - not just for New York City and America, but for citizens of the entire world.

        Your help is needed in order to move this vision from the planning stages to reality.  Please assist our efforts to raise $285 million to provide for these projects.

        Thank you and God Bless you.

        Jeffrey S. Williams
        Executive Director
        We Remember USA, Inc.