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Statue Unveiled for Flight 93 Hero
ASSOCIATED PRESS ^
| November 26, 2003
| ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted on 11/27/2003 6:38:21 AM PST by sopwith
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) - A flight attendant who was aboard United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania during the terrorist attacks two years ago was memorialized with a life-size statue.
More than 150 people applauded Wednesday as her husband and four sons slipped a golden cloth off the statue of CeeCee Lyles at a Fort Pierce memorial for the heroes and dead of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
"I have to say that it has brought tears to my eyes," the woman's husband, Lorne Lyles, told sculptor Chris Riccardo, 35.
CeeCee Lyles grew up in Fort Pierce and was an officer with the city's police department for six years before becoming a flight attendant in 2000.
Lyles and others aboard Flight 93 have been credited with preventing the plane's hijackers from reaching another target. The plane crashed into a rural field outside Shanksville, Pa.
State Sen. Ken Pruitt described Lyles as a "hometown hero" and an inspiration because she was an average person who possessed courage, character and generosity.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: flight93; memorial; statue; terrorist
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posted on
11/27/2003 6:38:22 AM PST
by
sopwith
To: sopwith
A well deserved tribute.
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posted on
11/27/2003 6:39:57 AM PST
by
Peach
(The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
To: sopwith
I would like to see a picture, if anyone can find one.
How many of us ordinary folk, going to work one morning like everyone else, would think we would end up immortalized in a statue for a heroic act?
How many of us think we would never get back home at all.
Let us be Thankful today for all our great blessings.
To: sopwith
A very appropriate thing to do. Is there a picture of her available.
To: I still care; truthkeeper
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posted on
11/27/2003 7:15:15 AM PST
by
martin_fierro
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Other photos:
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posted on
11/27/2003 7:17:27 AM PST
by
martin_fierro
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To: sopwith
May God comfort those who love her.I am happy to see her memorialized.
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posted on
11/27/2003 7:20:53 AM PST
by
MEG33
To: sopwith
Bump.
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posted on
11/27/2003 8:47:31 AM PST
by
First_Salute
(God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
To: martin_fierro
A beautiful lady inside and out. Thank you for finding those pictures of her. BUMP
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