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Flight 93 National Memorial

, Pennsylvania

NPCA REGION: Mid-Atlantic Regional Office

Acreage: 817.38

Category: National Memorial

Date Established: 09/24/2002

More Info: http://www.nps.gov/flni

Flight 93 Memorial to Gain More Than 900 Acres

Plans to create a permanent memorial to the passengers and crew killed aboard Flight 93 have taken a giant step forward. The Families of Flight 93 announced in March 2008 that they will purchase over 900 acres of land near Shanksville in western Pennsylvania. This purchase brings the total land acquired for the park up to 75 percent.

Once complete, the memorial will cover approximately 2,200 acres and include easements on 900 acres as a view shed to protect the memorial from incompatible development.

Congress authorized the park in 2002. The memorial will honor the passengers and crew of Flight 93 who lost their lives in a heroic struggle to stop an attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001. A groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for 2009.

—Reported in NPCA's Park Lines, May 2008

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We visited in June with my father for the second time. What a patriotic site! What those passengers did to protect freedom. Can't wait to see the new visitor center. I hope the woman volunteer who accurately and with compassion described the event(wish I had her name) will be there again. She was great. Had a book with the passengers and told a little story about most of them.

Submitted by Kyle in Chicago at: September 20, 2009

I will never forget the sight of my son writing a note to the passengers, congratulating them on not letting the "bad guys" win. It was one of the most touching things I have witnessed.

Submitted by bennie at: June 4, 2009

I have visited this site several times since it was created and am always moved each time I come. My last visit occurred in late summer '08 and there were about 20 other visitors there, a fact which impressed me considering how many years have passed since the day of the attack. The visitors keep coming and I've seen them there in the rain as well as on a sunny day. The site continues to improve with the addition of a small booth for staff and visitors as well as park benches. Not quite a full fledged visitors' center, but better than what was there several years ago. One definite need is for better direction signs to reach the park. A visitor must really pay attention while driving on route 30 to see where to turn and there are no signs at all from the PA turnpike. The mementos left by visitors add to the experience by emphasizing how many Americans and others were personally affected by the terrorist act. Hopefully, the Park Service will find a way to continue to tastefully display and accept such objects and not just create a sterile one size fits all environment when the park is fully developed. I do look forward to the day when this memorial is fully developed to give honor to those on Flight 93 who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

Submitted by vigon at: January 4, 2009

We visited this site last fallduring a cold , snowy day and found a few others willing to make the drive to nowhere. it is hard to find and ill marked by both state and NPS. The visitors center is about the size of 2 spot a pots. Which were both laying on their sides frozen blue. We did meet a very kind volunteer who interprets the site for visitors. Many memntos were windstrewn and looking haggard and trashy. All in all, what you'd expect of the Bush administered NPS program. All talk.. with very little to show. Somewhat disappointing as a legacy to these people.

Submitted by Joeski1 at: August 4, 2008