In those 35 minutes, they were able to get information from the ground to understand what was going on, to realize that their plane was also going to be used as a missile, that, unless they did something, those terrorists were going to dictate the terms on how their lives ended. The passengers and crew members of Flight 93 had 35 minutes 9:28 was when the hijacking began 10:03 was when the plane came down here in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. And then, after the personal side, in saying the names and remembering those individuals, it's critical that we also remember what they did collectively. That didn't make a difference.Īnd by remembering the individuals, by saying their names, by learning about those individuals, that makes it personal. It didn't make a difference how old you were, how young you were, what your profession was, what the demographics were.
We want visitors that come to this memorial to realize that it could have been any one of us that day. They just were going about their business. And all the thousands of people that died that day had similar stories. That was their habit.Īnd then he got in a car service to go to Newark Airport and we never saw him again. You know, on the morning of September 11, my brother got up and had breakfast with his eldest daughter. Well, there's a couple of important aspects that we want people to take away as they drive out of the Flight 93 National Memorial.įirst one, when they're here, we want them to learn the story, the facts of the day, to learn about the individual people, those 40 heroes that were on board that got up that morning. It's an opportunity for us to look back over 20 years, reflect on our losses, reflect on the ripple effect of September 11 and how it continues to create loss and create great strife for us.īut it's also a unique opportunity for us to reach out to a new generation of students and even young teachers to help tell the story of Flight 93, about the heroism, about the sacrifice, the honor that was demonstrated by our loved ones that morning. Gordon Felt, Families of Flight 93: Well, once again, the eyes of the world are back on Flight 93, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. And I just wonder how that sits with you and other family members at this time, at this milestone. And this anniversary is certainly something that has captured the nation's attention. I know this is obviously a very difficult time. Gordon, thank you very much for being here. He was a 41-year-old engineer with two daughters when he died. Throughout the past two decades, Gordon Felt has been the president of Families of Flight 93. There's one part of the memorial that the general public can visit, but there are also many acres that are considered sacred ground, where parts of the plane came down. The Flight 93 Memorial in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, is dedicated to the 40 passengers and crew members who brought down that flight and averted potentially a much worse disaster.
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