The Andrew Jackson Higgins National Memorial in Pawnee Park features a life-sized replica of a Higgins boat with bronze statues of soldiers exiting into the sand . The memorial includes sand samples from 58 beaches of historic significance : D-Day beaches of World War II , and beaches in Korea and Vietnam . The site is also home to the Freedom Memorial , which incorporates steel from the remains of the World Trade Center , destroyed by terrorist attacks on September 11 , 2001
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Columbus, Nebraska