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New Virginia License Plate Exhorts Citizens to 'Fight Terrorism’
Tuesday, July 2, 2002
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service

Arlington County Chief of Police Edward A. Flynn stands between blowups of the new Virginia vehicle license, left, and the non-vehicle souvenir plate. The plates feature the phrase “Fight Terrorism” emblazoned in red letters.
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Image Credit: Gerry J. Gilmore -- AFIS.

WASHINGTON -- AFIS
Virginians soon will be able to sport vehicle license plates bearing a Pentagon-shaped logo and the words "Fight Terrorism" emblazoned in red letters in remembrance of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America.

The first plates are slated for delivery by the one-year anniversary of the attacks in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, said Virginia House of Delegates representative Bob Hull today at an outdoor unveiling ceremony near the Pentagon.

The distinctive Pentagon logo can be seen on this blowup of the new Virginia license plate available for order now.
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Image Credit: Gerry J. Gilmore -- AFIS.

Hull sponsored the state legislation creating the license plates. He noted Virginians could obtain the new plates as a way to show solidarity for the first responders who came to help in the wake of the attacks, to remember victims and to demonstrate "a national effort to resist this type of thing from ever happening again."

The Pentagon logo on the plates features an American flag and employs a silhouette of the New York World Trade Center's Twin Towers to form the "11" of the date of the attacks. The plates also commemorate the terrorist assault aboard the hijacked airliner that crashed into a Pennsylvania field.
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