Today Barbara and I travelled west to the Flight 93 National Memorial. For those of you who may not remember, this was the plane that was brought down by the passengers short of it’s intended target, Washington D.C., on September 11, 2001. There is still speculation today as to the exact target, but it is believed that the intended target was either the US Capital building or the White House.
It was reported that when the plane crashed it was travelling at a speed of 563 miles per hour and was flying upside down. Even though the plane pretty much disintegrated upon impact the black box was recovered along with the weapons used by the hijackers and one of their credit cards. It was this credit card that led the FBI to the hijackers names, country of origin and al Qaeda.
Before flight 93 crashed here this was the sight of an abandoned coal mine. Today, as required by the EPA, the land here has been reclaimed and it is now a National Memorial and a wetland. A large boulder has been placed at the location of the crash, a wall has been constructed with the names of the forty passengers and crew of flight 93 (the terrorists excluded), a visitors center with a walkway showing the planes flight path just before it crashed and the Tower of Voices. The Tower of Voices stands 93 feet tall, in honor of flight 93, and contains 40 windchimes, one for each passenger and crew member.
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