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Live report-pre 9-11-02, Shanksville, Somerset, PA.
Susan J. Hankinson, Somerset County Flight 93 Coordinator ^
| Sep. 10, 2002
| self
Posted on 09/10/2002 2:44:54 PM PDT by freepersup
On scene-field report from Shanksville, PA. & Somerset, PA., pre 9-11 *********************************************************
September 11, 2002 ~ 9:30 AM (1 hour duration) 1st Anniversary Memorial Service- Open to the Public-NO FEES Skyline Road Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, PA (814) 445-1408
Details The official 1-Year Anniversary Memorial Service, "A Time for Honor and Hope" begins at 9:30AM with an approximate duration of 1 hour.
No on-site parking will be available and all persons will need to utilize designated parking areas and shuttle bus service.
See our website home page for details. Additional information will be posted as available.
Please be aware the site location presents many challenges such as rough terrain, security checks, waiting for buses, no chairs (only blankets), etc. The program will be televised in its entirety. Should you have any reservations about attending the on-site service you may wish to consider the terrain and logistics involved.
For program details, please see our home page.
Please be advised that President Bush will not be attending the public service, but will meet privately with the Fligh 93 families later in the afternoon.
NOTE: "A Time for Honor and Hope" is the ONLY official Flight 93 memorial service.
Directions Parking areas- see our website home page for parking details.
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: flight93; memorialservice; pa; shanksville
Drove all night (613 miles) to attend memorial services...
Radio broadcasts estimating 30,000 to attend memorial...
Shanksville population-245...
One store, Ada's market, has hard to find- flt 93 memorabilia...
Shanksville PA post office issuing commemorative cancellation for postage on 9-11...
Rugged terrain...
Winding mountainous roads...
Narrow 2 lane blacktop...
Crash site on reclaimed strip mine...
Security tight...
No access to site by public on 9-10...
30 media satelite trucks by 2PM...
Beautiful scenery...
Large windmills can be seen off the Penn. turnpike near Somerset...
Shanksville approx. 10 miles east of Somerset...
Take Lambertsville Rd. north out of Shanksville 2 miles, turn right (southest) on Skyline Rd...
Lots of G-men in big Suburbans...
Shuttle buses to run tomorrow starting at 6AM, out of Somerset...
I will be on the first wave...
Impact point was 4 seconds from school in Shanksville...
Staying at motel owned by Viet Nam War veteran...
Given discount for my vet status...
Motels/hotels locked up in a 50 mile radius...
Hallowed ground...
Bittersweet event...
American flags everywhere, with '93' in the stars field,
50 stars form a circle around the 93...
Several buses with family members visiting the crash site today...
My thoughts...Impact crater formed by footprint of a beast named evil...
Above crater, 40 pairs of angel wings beat the air completely erasing thoughts of evil handywork...
Check out website http://www.flt93memorial.org
Memorial chapel built 3 miles from site...
Communicating from Somerset Public Library real time until 7PM...
Interesting major recent news event...Quecreek coal mine rescue site, just 5 miles north of Somerset, some GOOD news for the county, all miners brought to the surface OK...
Heavy forests all around...
Rolling hills...
Logging operations...
Small plots of crops, unlike huge spreads in the midwest...
Fundraiser website, http://www.heartofsteel.com
Steel wrist bands for sale...
I met, '93' style, flag designer, from Harrisburg, PA.(Gene ?)...
Shanksville fire department raising funds with the sale of flags...
At motel, met PA state policeman, alleges he was 4th law enforcement officer on scene...
Claims local seismic recording at 9:22AM (sonic boom.)
Impact at 10:06...
Splashed ? (missile strike) tin foil ?...
Debris field concentrated-30 foot deep crater...
A/C tail only intact recognizeable A/C part...
None of the passengers reported, via cell phone, any strike...
end of transmission...too tired from no sleep to format properly
To: freepersup
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Some of the victims from United Flight 93 that crashed in Shanksville, Pa. Sept. 11, 2001 are shown in these undated file photos: Linda Gronlund, 46, Greenwood Lake, N.Y., Richard Jerry Guadagno, 39, Eureka, Calif., LeRoy Wilton Homer, 36, Marlton, N.J., Toshiya Kuge, 20, Nishimidoriguoska, Japan, CeeCee Lyles, 33, Fort Myers, Fla., Hilda Marcin, 79, Budd Lake, N.J., Waleska Martinez Rivera, 37, Jersey City, N.J., Nicole Miller, 21, San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/files) - Sep 10 5:14 PM ET |
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Some of the victims from United Flight 93 that crashed in Shanksville, Pa. Sept. 11, 2001 are shown in these undated file photos: Joseph Deluca, 52, Ledgewood, N.J., Edward P. Felt, 41, Matawan, N.J., Colleen Laura Fraser, 51, Elizabeth, N.J., Andrew Garcia, 62, Portola Valley, Calif., Jeremy Glick, 31, Hewlett, N.J., Lauren Grandcolas, 38, San Rafael, Calif., Wanda Anita Green, 49, Linden, N.J., Donald F. Greene, 47, Greenwich, Conn. (AP Photo/files) - Sep 10 5:14 PM ET |
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Some of the victims from United Flight 93 that crashed in Shanksville, Pa. Sept. 11, 2001 are shown in these undated file photos: Louis J. Nacke, 42, New Hope, Pa., Donald Arthur Peterson, 66, Spring Lake, N.J., Jean Hoadley Peterson, 55, Spring Lake, N.J., Mark Rothenberg, 52, Scotch Plains, N.J., Christine Anne Snyder, 32, Kailua, Hawaii, Honor Elizabeth Wainio, 27, Baltimore, Md., Deborah Welsh, 49, New York, N.Y. (AP Photo/files) - Sep 10 5:13 PM ET |
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Some of the victims from United Flight 93 that crashed in Shanksville, Pa. Sept. 11, 2001 are shown in these undated file photos: Todd Beamer, 32, Cranbury, N.J., Alan Beaven, 48, Hurleyville, N.Y., Mark K. Bingham, 31, San Francisco, Calif., Deora Frances Bodley, 20, San Diego, Calif., Sandra W. Bradshaw, 38, Greensboro, N.C., Thomas E. Burnett, 38, San Ramon, Calif., Georgine Rose Corrigan, 56, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jason Dahl, 43, Denver, Colo. (AP Photo/files) - Sep 10 5:13 PM ET |
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Mary Saar of Avon, Ohio, facing camera, hugs Susan Deitrick of Cleveland during a visit Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2002 to the temporary memorial to United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa.. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) - Sep 10 3:12 PM ET |
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The temporary memorial for Flight 93 stands in Shanksville, Pa., Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2002, in front of the field where the plane crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. Memorial services for the victims of United Airlines Flight 93, which went down last Sept. 11 after being hijacked, are planned for Tuesday and Wednesday, the one year anniversary of the terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/George Widman) - Sep 10 11:57 AM ET |
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A jet flies over a "God Bless America" flag with a representation of the World Trade Center towers, a remembrance of the terrorist attacks, at the temporary memorial for Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2002. Memorial services for the victims of United Airlines Flight 93, which went down last Sept. 11 after being hijacked, are planned for Tuesday and Wednesday, the one year anniversary of the terrorist attacks (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) - Sep 10 10:18 AM ET |
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A member of the media walks at daybreak at the temporary memorial for Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2002. Memorial services for the victims of United Airlines Flight 93, which went down last Sept. 11 after being hijacked, are planned for Tuesday and Wednesday, the one year anniversary of the terrorist attacks (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) - Sep 10 10:14 AM ET |
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American flags are reflected in a marker inscribed with the words "Let's Roll...," at the temporary memorial for Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2002. Memorial services for the victims of United Airlines Flight 93, which went down last Sept. 11 after being hijacked, are planned for Tuesday and Wednesday, the one year anniversary of the terrorist attacks ``Let's Roll...." was said by victim Todd Beamer shortly before the plane crashed .(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) - Sep 10 10:08 AM ET |
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Somerset County Deputy Sheriff Richard Brown photographs the scene at the temporary memorial for United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., early Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2002. Memorial services for the victims of United Airlines Flight 93, which went down last Sept. 11 after being hijacked, are planned for Tuesday and Wednesday, the one year anniversary of the terrorist attacks..(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) - Sep 10 10:04 AM ET |
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Cathy Stefani of San Jose, Calif., places a teddy bear next to an "angel" marker for her daughter, Nicole Miller, Monday, Sept. 9, 2002, at a makeshift memorial at the Shanksville, Pa., site of the Sept. 11, 2001 crash site of United Flight 93. Her daughter was a victim of the crash. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) - Sep 09 3:11 PM ET |
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A teddy bear sits, placed by Cathy Stefani of San Jose, Calif., next to an "angel" marker for her daughter, Nicole Miller, Monday, Sept. 9, 2002, at a makeshift memorial at the Shanksville, Pa., site of the Sept. 11, 2001 crash site of United Flight 93. Her daughter was a victim of the crash in which 40 died. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) - Sep 09 2:44 PM ET |
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A military helicopter flies Monday, Sept. 9, 2002, over a makeshift memorial at the Shanksville, Pa., site of the crash of United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001. Forty passengers and crew died when the hijacked plane crashed. (AP Photo/George Widman) - Sep 09 2:12 PM ET |
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A television news crew stands Monday, Sept. 9, 2002, between satellite uplink trucks and a makeshift memorial at the Shanksville, Pa., site of the Sept. 11, 2001 crash site of United Flight 93. Seven crew members and 33 passengers died when the plane crashed in a field in remote western Pennsylvania.(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) - Sep 09 1:16 PM ET |
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A flag honoring the 40 passengers and crew of United Flight 93 which crashed near Shanksville, Pa., last September 11, is displayed on Capitol Hill in Washington Monday, Sept. 9, 2002. Holding the flag from left to right are Jason Ferrill of Ft. Stewart, Ga., and Alex Ostapovich, Leo Fesiuk and Ilya Tikhonov, all of Ashville, N.C. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook) - Sep 09 1:00 PM ET |
To: Oldeconomybuyer
thank you, our posts compliment each other, besides...I couldn't get to the site today
To: freepersup; Oldeconomybuyer
Thanks to you for being there, and thanks for the information you have posted.
Thanks to Oldeconomybuyer for the pictures.
God bless the survivors of Flight 93, the people of Shanksville, and the United States of America!
To: freepersup
You're welcome, and thank you for all the hard work. My part was EASY!
To: Oldeconomybuyer
locals tell me to be at the bus pick up point at 5AM as lines will be forming...buses begin transporting at 6AM, lights out early
To: Miss Marple
I,for one, won't forget the battle cry...."LET'S ROLL!"
To: ErnBatavia
al queda is purported to be active in 60-yes 60 countries.
Let's Roll-hell yes let's roll. let's roll some heads !
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Great report. I'm homesick for central PA, and would surely be at Shanksville if I could. (I'm in Taiwan for a year.)
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posted on
09/10/2002 5:16:53 PM PDT
by
zook
To: freepersup
great report, freepersup - thank you.
and timely too !
had the alarm set for 0330, but since you have the event covered vis a vis FR,
believe i'll stay home, work, and make the pilgrimage after the hordes have gone ...
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posted on
09/10/2002 7:33:49 PM PDT
by
tomkat
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