First responders honor World Trade Center beam arriving at Boston fallen heroes memorial

The Tunnel to Towers Steel Across America tour honored fallen heroes in Boston Wednesday as part of a nationwide tour slated to finish in New York City just after Sept. 11.

The group brought a preserved 21-foot steel beam from the South Tower of the World Trade Center, which has been on tour since May, to the Massachusetts Fallen Heroes Memorial in Boston's Seaport.

"For us as first responders and veterans, what this means as we come up on the 25th anniversary is personal. It's all...