While in western PA we visited the Flight 93 Memorial.  It’s not finished yet, the visitors center and much of the information that will be available is not yet there.

But, they have a small area near the parking lot with some plaques showing information about the flight and passengers/crew members.  From that area there is a walkway in black concrete with a short wall on one side that leads to the memorial wall.

The walkway takes you past the area where the plane actually crashed.  It took out part of a hemlock forest and is now a grassy meadow.  Once they recovered as much debris as they could, and as many bodies as they could, they covered in the crash area (which was a big hole in the ground) to make the meadow.

The memorial wall contains 40 marble panels standing upright and connected to each other.  Each one contains the name of a passenger or crew member who was on the flight.  There are 40 in total.

This is a memorial to what I consider to be very heroic people.  They could have huddled in the back of the plane and done nothing – but instead they forced their way to the cockpit and made the hijackers go down early, instead of taking the plane to the intended target; later determined to be the capital building where both the House and the Senate were in session that morning.

Here are pictures we took while there: