The Flight 93 National Memorial

The NPS has done a wonderful job in the creation of this site. The first thing that you see on the way in is the Tower of Voices. The 93 foot high tower contains 40 wind chimes, one voice for each passenger and crew member. It is perched on the highest ground on the site to be visible for many miles. At the visitors center, you can see the timeline of the days events, personal items found in the rubble, pictures and stories of the people that died, and then walk out on to a pier where you can stand just below the path of Flight 93 as it passed at over 560 miles per hour about a second before impact. You can look down at the boulder that was placed at crash point. A walk or drive down lets you see the memorial wall with an upright marble slab with a name for each that died. These 40 slabs are on the path about 500 feet before the boulder. It is a place like any other war memorial, built for those, who in the face of certain death, chose to offer their lives for others. Forty true American Patriots.

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