Striking memorial to Flight 93 debuts

[Omaha Steve]

VIDEO here: http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/blog/2007/12/09/united-93-memorial/

http://www.mercurynews.com/localnewsheadlines/ci_7676103?nclick_check=1

TALL SLABS REPRESENTING EACH OF 40 VICTIMS WEND THEIR WAY THROUGH UNION CITY PARK
By Kim Vo
Mercury News
Article Launched: 12/09/2007 02:03:04 AM PST

Cathy Stefani caressed the rose-colored granite monolith, one of dozens that lined the narrow field. Her middle child's name was engraved on its polished surface: Nicole C. Miller, 21, San Jose, CA.


12/8/2007 -- Union City, CA -- , Cathy Stefani, of San Jose, is reflected in a stone marker inscribed with her daughter Nicole Miller's name after the dedication Saturday December 8, 2007 of a memorial in Sugar Hill Landing Park in Union City for passengers who died during the highjacking of United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. The memorial honors the SFO-bound passengers who fought off the hijackers and ended up crashing into a Pennsylvania field. There are 40 stone markers, each inscribed with the name and hometown of one of the 33 passengers and 7 crew members who were on that flight. (Pauline Lubens/Mercury News) ( Pauline Lubens )


As she was on Sept. 11, 2001, Miller was surrounded by the other passengers and crew members of the ill-fated United Airlines Flight 93. It crashed in a Pennsylvania field after a passenger uprising prevented terrorists from steering the Boeing 757 into a building, as had been done that day with the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.

Everyone - 33 passengers, 7 crew members and 4 hi-jackers - died.

Andrew "Sonny" Garcia, 62, Portola Valley, CA. Waleska Martinez, 37, Jersey City, NJ. Lauren Grandcolas & Unborn Child, 38, San Rafael, CA.

Under the crisp Saturday sky, more than 100 people - including the victims' families - dedicated the memorial to those who have come to symbolize the heroism of ordinary people. Scores of spectators gathered beyond the metal barricades.

"It's beautiful," said Stefani, who wore a button reading "Our Angel Nicole" with a photo of the smiling brunette taken a few days before her death.

FULL story at link.

[Maven]

1. The monuments have cutouts like airplane windows.

So sad.

EDIT: Correction...they're not cutouts, but mirrors. I wonder if this was still the intended effect?

[soothsayer]

2. it's the least we could do after shooting it down

[Berry Cool]

3. I don't suppose there's even one place on this earth where people can just remember the dead

without someone having to drag their conspiracy theories into it. :-(

[Kucinich4America]

4. Everything you have been told about Flight 93

IS a conspiracy theory.