As part of the return trip from EAA AirVenture (“Oshkosh”) this year, we stopped at the Flight 93 National Memorial. It’s a 30-minute drive from the idiot-proof ridgetop airport that serves Johnstown, Pennsylvania (see Climate Change Reading List: Johnstown Flood).
The architecture is moving and designed around a walkway that follows the flight path of the airliner that jihadis had hoped to turn into a weapon against the U.S. Capitol. The path picks up after you go to a lower section of the memorial where the Boeing 757 actually crashed.
The building itself contains a lot of information about 9/11, not just the Flight 93 history. Visitors can listen to three phone messages to family members left by passengers on Flight 93.
Here are some of the outdoor signs:
A Harley is parked just outside the main building and includes Todd Beamer‘s final recorded words: “Let’s Roll”.
The walkway to the Wall of Names:
There’s a 93-foot-tall Tower of Voices of wind-driven chimes that look like aircraft parts (audio recording).
It’s a fitting memorial to a group of people who gave their lives in order to spare the lives of Americans on the ground.
Here’s the Hollywood version with the “Let’s Roll” line about 4 minutes in:
RIP especially to the crew: Lorraine Bay, Jason Dahl, Sandra Bradshaw, Wanda Green, LeRoy Homer Jr., CeeCee Lyles, and Deborah Welsh. Airline crews enable us to live richer lives by assuming a higher level of risk every day than those of us who earn our wages by flying desks.
Lions ponder how they survived that day more as they get older. We are all survivors of plagues, disasters, wars, terrorism who could have been in the wrong place over thousands of years. The lineage only came to an end because all the women said get lost & hit menopause.
This is kind of like the comment by the person yesterday about his coworker celebrating the murder of a human being… I remember when I first heard the news, I was working on some CRUD software project. My 400 lb, admitted Schedule I LSD-using, radical left-wing coworker got up from his reinforced chair to announce, “America had this coming.” I said, “F that, no one deserves to be murdered.” I think he reported me to H.R. for using the F-word and possibly referring to violence, I never returned H.R.’s calls. He must have been on lysergic acid to say that to me.
> It’s a fitting memorial to a group of people who gave their lives in order to spare the lives of Americans on the ground.
Heroes and patriots, thanks for posting this today Phil. Today’s protestors might not even remember 9/11, when terrorism stopped being an abstract concept for many Americans.
May the memory of those who died thwarting terrorists’ plans be a blessing. We shell never forget them.