Save 22 A Day Trans-America Cycling

The link to today's route and statistics is found here . The morning began with a farmer on an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) describing a 9-11 memorial in Clint to the author.  The memorial was at the bottom of the hill below the Best Western Motel in which we stayed.  Clint decided to build the memorial in remembrance of the persons in and around the buildings who died when the Twin Towers In New York City collapsed, and as a tribute to the heroic First Responders, both firemen and police, who ran into the buildings to save lives.  Many of those First Responders made the ultimate sacrifice.  The farmer explained that the memorial is built of solid concrete cylinders used by a local test laboratory for testing concrete strength.  Each cylinder was loaded in compression until it had a first crack.  The cylinders were painted on the ends to represent an American flag, and with the pattern used, this allowed only 49 stars.  Therefore these Texans added the 50 th star in the for