When will the Flight 93 memorial roll from sea to shining sea?
Today, eight years later, Nacke’s brothers, cousins and folks he never met, including relatives of others who died on United Flight 93, will finish that … Sources: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_1_0_t&usg=AFQjCNHOuE-0KTrltg0oJS20gDDuDgo6YA&cid=1310864903&ei=T4qqStiON4fcmQeyjaeyAg&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfgate.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Farticle.cgi%3Ff%3D%2Fc%2Fa%2F2009%2F09%2F11%2FMN2919LJEA.
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. 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 crashed. In November, earth movers and road builders will begin work on a permanent memorial. “This time of year is tough,” says Carole O’Hare,
