Flight 93 National Memorial News

Ground was finally broken Saturday for the nation's newest federal memorial, a $58 million tribute to passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a remote field here the morning of the Sept.

Flight 93 Memorial groun breaking ceremony. 11/7/2009 Its a day years in the making in Somerset County.

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, left, makes remarks during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Flight 93 National Memorial Saturday, Nov.

Before helping to break ground for a national memorial honoring the 40 heroic passengers and crew members who died aboard United Flight 93 on 9/11, Governor Edward G. Rendell recognized the sacred ground on which he stood and reiterated a commitment made earlier this year.

Campbell Peterson was 5 and his brother, Peyton, was only 1 when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field in Somerset County, killing everyone aboard, including their grandfather and step-grandmother, on Sept.

Congress has passed an appropriations bill that includes $725,000 in federal funding for the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the Flight 93 National Memorial will take place early next month.

After years of fundraising and acquiring land, plans are in place for groundbreaking for the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville.

In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2009 House Meets At... 10:00 a.m.: Legislative Business First Vote Predicted... 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Last Vote Predicted... 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. "One Minutes" Conference Report on H.R. 2997 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, ...

In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: First Vote of the Week... Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Last Vote Predicted... Thursday p.m. MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2009 On Monday, the House will not be in session.

Even as creation of a permanent Flight 93 National Memorial hits full stride, earlier fears of unbridled - and unsightly - development seem to have fallen by the wayside.

On the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, family, friends and visitors expect to celebrate the opening of the Flight 93 National Memorial.

Eight years after a jetliner crashed into a field here on Sept. 11, 2001, the message, Colin Powell said, remains: "We will prevail over the forces of darkness." Speaking before a crowd of several thousand under steely gray skies, the former secretary of state told family members of the fallen, "We can never totally grasp the emotions that must ...

''Too many Americans, thank heavens, are back to thinking like Minutemen.'' W ill the chairman of the Whitehall Area Neighborhood Campaign for the Flight 93 National Memorial please come forward? You must know who you are, even though nobody else seems to.

Louis "Joey" Nacke II never finished his trip to California. On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked the plane he was taking to San Francisco.

On the eighth anniversary of the September 11th attacks on the United States, NBC25's Scott Hershberger takes us to Somerset County, Pennsylvania for a look at the Flight 93 National Memorial.

When state Sen. Jane Orie came up with the idea of selling "Hearts of Steel" bracelets to raise money for a memorial to passengers on Flight 93 she expected to collect perhaps $10,000. Instead, the bracelets raised more than 100 times that amount.

The sale of more than 100,000 "Hearts of Steel" bracelets raised $1.1 million for the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Sen.

In the tiny town of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the pain of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is on simple, but dramatic display.

It was a day of thank yous and thoughts of what could've been, as family members of the passengers and crew of United Flight 93 visited Capitol Hill on Wednesday to honor those who perished aboard that plane eight years ago.