Is there a memorial, eight years after terrorists hijacked United Flight 93?”
For Flight 93 memorial, long-awaited progress By Martha T. Moore, USA TODAY SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — At the edge of a small gravel parking lot stands a tall, wire fence decorated with hundreds of ribbons, flags, patches and medals. Nearby are a large wooden cross, a line of polished stone markers and handmade folk-art angels draped with rosaries. A gray National Park Service hut is the only shelter. Eight years after terrorists hijacked United Flight 93 and crashed it in the western Pennsylvania countryside on Sept. 11, 2001, the memorial to the 40 passengers and crew who fought against them looks more like a roadside shrine than a national park, a homemade expression of patriotism and sorrow nestled in a rural expanse. ATTENDANCE: Most-visited national memorials When families of those who died gather here today for a yearly commemoration, it will be the last time the landscape looks this way. After years of on-and-off negotiation, the Park Service has acquired the land where the plane crash
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Pennsylvania landowners around the September 11, 2001, crash site of Flight 93 have reached an agreement with the federal government allowing construction of a permanent memorial there, the government announced Monday. Family members take part in a memorial service for Flight 93 on September 11, 2008, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Family members take part in a memorial service for Flight 93 on September 11, 2008, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the National Park Service has “reached agreements with all the landowners needed” to establish the permanent memorial for the 40 people killed in the terrorist hijacking nearly eight years ago. Salazar said the government will pay the landowners approximately $9.5 million. One of several airliners hijacked on September 11, 2001, by terrorists who intended to use them as flying bombs, United Airlines Flight 93 went down near Shanksville, in western Pennsylvania. Salazar described the nego
At the edge of a small gravel parking lot stands a tall, wire fence decorated with hundreds of ribbons, flags, patches and medals. Nearby are a large wooden cross, a line of polished stone markers and handmade folk-art angels draped with rosaries. A gray National Park Service hut is the only shelter. Eight years after terrorists hijacked United Flight 93 and crashed it in the western Pennsylvania countryside on Sept. 11, 2001, the memorial to the 40 passengers and crew who fought against them looks more like a roadside shrine than a national park, a homemade expression of patriotism and sorrow nestled in a rural expanse.
