I have been aware of this for years. Our pleas for something else to commerate the hallowed ground fell on deaf ears. What can we do?
We almost have only 1 option left.
I don’t know why they have to build anything. Just have a tasteful, simple visitors’ center with displays, photos, news reports, etc. Leave the site itself alone. It’s a large open area of reclaimed strip mine with rolling hills covered with grasses that blow in the soft breezes in summer. Very quiet and serene and peaceful. Surrounded by small rural communities where you can find Amish buggies traveling the back roads.
Keep the land from reverting to forest and turn it into a sanctuary for grassland birds which are fast disappearing in Pennsylvania.
The actual crash site is in a copse of hemlocks. Enclose that in a fence so that vandals can’t desecrate the actual burial ground. That’s enough. Nothing grandiose. It’s powerful in its beauty and simplicity. Keep it that way.