Fort Knox Museum gets 9/11 fire truck

Museum director Christopher Kolakowski told The News-Enterprise (http://bit.ly/VUfOnp) that the truck is being prepared and preserved before it is put on display. He says the museum hopes to host an event when the truck is moved to its exhibit space, but they haven't decided yet when that will be.

The newspaper reports that the museum is one of only a few to be able to exhibit a public fire truck that responded to the 2001 attacks.

The truck was several yards away when a plane hit the building, but suffered observable damage.

Kolakowski said he reach out to touch the truck as soon as the tarp was pulled off.

"It was a very spiritual moment for me," he said. "The real object, the real place, has a power that reproductions and photographs don't have."

Museum officials hope to make a reproduction of the Pentagon ablaze behind the truck and relay information about the history of the piece, which museum employees are still researching.