Inside the center there are five walls that tell the story of 9-11, starting with the twin towers, the pentagon, and finally the story of Flight 93. The United Airlines plane was one of four hijacked by al-Qaeda on September 11, and the only flight that didn’t reach its target.
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In the end, their decision added to an exhibit that Root, and more than 100 other Flight 93 family members, who also toured the visitor center Wednesday, came away from impressed. “It’s been hijacked by terrorists who say they have a bomb”, Gronlund said in a message that can now be heard by the public for the first time at the new Flight 93 National Memorial Visitors Center.
His son said the visitor center “is here to honor the people who have died for the sake of the White House and the president and everyone else that was in there”.
It’s important to remember because that plane crashed, it did not continue on to its destination where it may have killed thousands. The plane was headed from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco when hijackers attempted to steer it to the U.S. Capitol for a direct hit.
A new timelapse video shot by EarthCam shows over 1,800 days of construction of the memorial’s visitor center complex-designed by Paul Murdoch Architects-which opened its doors yesterday.
“Our loved ones left a legacy for all of us”, Felt said, noting the plane, which was traveling 563 miles per hour, was less than 20 minutes flying time from Washington, D.C. “If the Capitol building was destroyed that day, just think how much more devastating an impact that day would have had on our country”.
Their memories live on in this field – in their photos, and in their voices, and in their actions – in this unbelievable new visitors’ center.
“This is a major piece of everything that happened on 9/11”, said Alan Hantman, a Flight 93 Memorial visitor. The memorial at the Pentagon opened on the eighth anniversary of the attack, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York opened on the 10 anniversary.
She breaks down sobbing: “Mostly I just wanted to say I love you and I’m going to miss you”. Passengers’ families had become friends with volunteers, she said, and the work was its own reward: “I cried less when I felt I could do something”.
Nevertheless, they have been spoken many occasions through the dedication Thursday of the Customer Middle.
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“It’s very impressive”, said Emily Schenkel, a close relative of flight attendant Lorraine Bay.
