The owner of a western Iowa welding and metal fabricating company is hosting a weekend event to mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Duane Weirich, who owns Weirich Welding Plus in Lewis, says he’s created an eight-by-20-foot custom metal “We the People” wall of American history, with individual cut-out pieces that are being bolted on.

“All the way from George Washington up to our current people on the wall,” Weirich says. “There’s history of agriculture, history of transportation. There’s sports and entertainment icons on there, presidents, and on top is a bald eagle holding a bronze cutout of the preamble to the Constitution.”

There are 91 separate pieces that make up the characters on the wall.