Flight 93 memorial to be inaugurated in Shanksville, Pa.

[marylander1940]

Fourteen years after people on board the hijacked United Airlines flight forced the plane into the ground as terrorists aimed it toward Washington, their story is on display for the hundreds of thousands of visitors who come to central Pennsylvania each year to visit the Flight 93 National Memorial.

 

http://www.nps.gov/flni/index.htm

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/us/a-long-road-to-a-place-of-peace-for-flight-93-families.html?_r=0

 

 

http://www.uphe.com/sites/default/files/2015/04/United-93-Gallery-1.jpg

 

 

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GUrUQN0m79o/hqdefault.jpg

[marylander1940]

[Diverdan]

Thanks for this post. I had never seen the "ending video"... but it is pretty dramatic and probably not far from what actually happened.

[mike carey]

I wasn't aware of the memorial at Shanksville. I do think it is important to remember the other important memorial of UA93. And that is the third picture in the second row, Mark Bingham. He, and by extension the rest of the people who died in this crash, is memorialised by the Bingham Cup, the world cup of gay rugby. His mother was in Sydney for the tournament last year.

[Tonyko]

Thanks for posting, I wasn't aware of this memorial either, I visited the one that was put there by the town early on. I remember the many mentions of the bravery of this openly gay man who took part in that flight 93 struggle. I would like very much to visit this new one. I go to ground Zero once a year. Ashamed that I have not visited (or do not even know if there is) a Washington one since that was the only place I knew two people who were lost, onboard the plane on their way back to LA. Assume there can't be anything too open to the public since it's The Pentagon, but wonder if there's anything we can visit?? PS: The victims of the Washington flight ARE remembered and included in the names on the Ground Zero memorial pools even though they did not perish there, and the same with those on UA93, a great decision whomever made it. Those onboard all four flights are listed together by the flight #, and distributed between the two pools, as are the police, firemen, and other rescuers, listed by Engine or Ladder Co etc. The MUSEUM itself is truly an experience, brilliant design and layout and SO moving an experience. (When I was 17 on summer break my brother-in-law's brother got me a little job when his brokerage house moved into the South Tower, unpacking files and putting them in drawers. Was only one week but so glad I got to work there, it was not the tower encorporated into the museum, that's the North one, but I truly thought those buildings (and those elevators!) were a marvel. Can't remember the floor, but it was above 80 because I'd switch from express to a local at the Sky Lobby on 78. (that took a direct hit from the plane, that lobby on 78) I STILL can't wrap my brain around that it's all gone. It's so weird, the debris, it didn't look like there was ENOUGH of it, like THAT can't be ALL that's left of all that. Where did it all go???? (I know it was pulverized, but it's still hard to grasp having been in them and seen their size)

[+ azdr0710]

Ashamed that I have not visited (or do not even know if there is) a Washington one since that was the only place I knew two people who were lost, onboard the plane on their way back to LA. Assume there can't be anything too open to the public since it's The Pentagon, but wonder if there's anything we can visit??

 

 

http://pentagonmemorial.org/

[Tonyko]

http://pentagonmemorial.org/

Thank you for link.