America's Response Monument

The statue represents the American Green Berets who rode horseback into combat in Afghanistan and honors all U.S. Army Special Forces, Special Operations Forces, Central Intelligence Agency, and other inter-agency teams called to serve following 9/11.

It is the first publicly accessible monument dedicated to the United States Army Special Forces. It was also the first monument near Ground Zero to recognize heroes of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The statue was conceived by sculptor Douwe Blumberg and first sold in 2003 as a small-scale, 18 inches version. In April 2011, an anonymous group of Wall Street bankers who lost friends in the 9/11 attacks commissioned a large version.