Flight 93 Memorial Dedication
Posted by StormWarning on 24 Aug 2008 at 08:45 pm | Tagged as: 2001, Current Affairs, September 11
Indeed, a fitting, yet incomplete, dedication of a cross made from the steel of the World Trade Center arrived at the Shanksville Fire Hall this weekend as part of a commemoration of the crash of Flight 93 near Shanksville Pa. The roar of 1,000 motorcycles escorted the steel beam from Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field to the site.
See the special Iron and Steel, New York City to Shanksville website here.
While this is not part of the “official” memorial that is slated to be completed on the 10th anniversary of the attacks, the 2-ton, 14-foot high cross sits on a concrete base shaped like the Pentagon at the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Co., just a few miles from where the plane crashed into a field. The cross made a 311-mile journey from Brooklyn on Saturday, accompanied by hundreds of motorcyclists, many of them current or retired New York firefighters.
The entire ceremony and day brought tears to many eyes.
As 12-year-old Matthew Barndt of Somerset sang a tribute to the fallen New York City firefighters, emotions welled at Sunday’s dedication of a cross forged from steel from the World Trade Center.
The cross, etched with the numbers “9-11-01” and emblazoned with a bronze plaque reading “Never Forget,” was placed on a hill beside the Shanksville fire hall.
CLICK FOR AN AUDIO SLIDESHOW OF SATURDAY’S EVENT
Sadly, I fear, that many of “us” have forgotten that day, have forgotten the feelings that were created that morning, and have allowed unnecessary emotions to create “clouds.”
Shanksville, World Trade Center
Brought tears to my eyes just reading about this. Thank you.
Every moment of my life, the image of the smoke rising just 30 miles to my west that morning is with me. Like that morning’s sky, there is nothing cloudy about my emotions.
I haven’t seen this anywhere else. Thanks for posting.
Whenever I can post, I try to be different. I have less and less time these days however to devote to this endeavor. Happy that I could bring you news that was new to you.