While in western PA we visited the Flight 93 Memorial.\u00a0 It’s not finished yet, the visitors center and much of the information that will be available is not yet there.<\/p>\n
But, they have a small area near the parking lot with some plaques showing information about the flight and passengers\/crew members.\u00a0 From that area there is a walkway in black concrete with a short wall on one side that leads to the memorial wall.<\/p>\n
The walkway takes you past the area where the plane actually crashed.\u00a0 It took out part of a hemlock forest and is now a grassy meadow.\u00a0 Once they recovered as much debris as they could, and as many bodies as they could, they covered in the crash area (which was a big hole in the ground) to make the meadow.<\/p>\n
The memorial wall contains 40 marble panels standing upright and connected to each other.\u00a0 Each one contains the name of a passenger or crew member who was on the flight.\u00a0 There are 40 in total.<\/p>\n
This is a memorial to what I consider to be very heroic people.\u00a0 They could have huddled in the back of the plane and done nothing – but instead they forced their way to the cockpit and made the hijackers go down early, instead of taking the plane to the intended target; later determined to be the capital building where both the House and the Senate were in session that morning.<\/p>\n
Here are pictures we took while there:<\/p>\n
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