SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (KDKA) — Wednesday celebrates 23 years since the bleak circumstances of September 11, 2001. Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, and former President Donald Trump all saw the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday to celebrate the stamina lost that day.
The Flight 93 National Memorial in rustic Somerset County, a slightly more than an hour from Pittsburgh, commemorates the location where United Airlines Flight 93 slammed after passengers and force voted to combat back against a bunch of hijackers.
United Airlines Flight 93 was one of four aircraft commandeered that morning. Two slammed into the World Trade Center buildings in New York City and a third slammed into the Pentagon. It’s thought the terrorists aboard Flight 93 planned to target the U.S. Capitol tower.
Forty Flight 93 passengers and force partners lost their stamina that day.
Flight 93 National Memorial
Sheryl Stoll, who reached out Wednesday, as she accomplishes almost every year to keep her cousin, Flight 93 Captain Jason M. Dahl, declares he was a hero.
“Jason would speak to family, certainly to me, if he ever owned to take his plane in, he begged that it would be in an unpopulated location, just an open field. And, when I speak it today, it offers me goosebumps because that’s just what occurred,” said Stoll.
Another family partner who was there Wednesday dawn was Gordon Felt. His brother, Edward Porter Felt, was on the flying that disastrous morning.
Gordon says that he expects the remembrance of his brother and the other passengers and staff that were yielded never fade from remembering.
“Sept. 11 is a challenging day. The scab is ripped again. Considering back to all we lost, our family, my brother. The family of the 40 icons that are recognized in a very public manner every year. But at the same time. It is also promoting that there is still good, that we are still lecturing about Sept. 11, and individuals are still reaching out to the monument,” Felt added.
Public Events Held
The service began at 9:45 a.m., but residents started offering up as early as 7 a.m. to contemplate and reflect on the 40 individuals on Flight 93 who lost their lives while attempting to control the terrorists on panel from flying the airplane eventually into the U.S. Capitol tower.
The families of the targets laid a garland at the crash site.
“The nature of the passengers and staff showed. They were that daylight by setting others rather,” said Rev. Daniel Lawrence of the Pennsylvania State Police. “Their unique and collaborative actions that day saved numerous innocent, gullible lives from catastrophe. Today, there are people here from all disciplines. All strolls of life, homes, and backgrounds, but the one thing we all have in common is this: We’re part of humanity.”
Every speaker requested that folks not just continue to keep reflecting, but schools keep teaching the levels and classes from Sept. 11, so that we as a nation never forget.
