7 years ago over our beautiful mountains...
an airplane came hurtling over our schools, our homes, filled with 40 people...struggling to keep the flight out of Washington and struggling to keep a plane in flight..... (in airspeed we are only 12 minutes out of Washington)
Flight 93 plowed into a windswept mountain top not far from where we live. Many of us knew families from the area, and men and women who went to "rescue" and found nothing but a smoking crater in the ground. We have a friend near the site. His home is was built 80 years ago from stone that was on the property. He said it was the first time his home literally shook. The plane impact site is only a mile from the community's school...which housed all students from Kindergarten to 12th grade.
Today, the US Flag marks the impact site.
Almost immediately a grassroots memorial sprang up, and these are photos of the People's Memorial for Flight 93.
When ever we are in the area, we stop. We stopped on this past Friday. It is a solemn and most affecting place. The wind is strong on the ridge... yet all of the little pieces that people leave stay put. A big national memorial is going to be built in the next few years, but I don't think it will have the feel of what the people have created to simply say "We Remember....Thank You"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10315089@N08/sets/72157607161262742/show/
Today my husband and I attended the ceremony at Flight 93, the following are photos that I took...
Approaching security. We are so use to going to public events in the post 9-11 nation, we now just take the basics, ID and a camera. I leave my purse and back packs behind.
Just past the cars in the field the Memorial appears. People were from all over, we could tell by the license plates.
The Bells of Remembrance are rung as they read the names of each of the 40 passengers.
It was cloudy when we arrived, but as the last of the names were read the sun broke through. It was hitting this flag, so it sort of glowed. September 11, 2001 was a beautiful sapphire blue sky day.
Even had a opportunity to see a maybe future President..
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Thank you.
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