My 17th Straight Year.......

[Norm]

.......at the Fight 93 Crash Site Memorial near Shanksville, PA.

From '02 to '09 with motorcycle groups, from '10 to present with the Vette club.
It's an annual pilgrimage I look forward to regardless of the weather. This weekend, not so good weather. There were a few on the trip that have never been there, and some have never driven their Vettes in such crappy weather. Well their "garage queen" status is gone now.......

I've got some detail work to do myself now.........never ending.

[Mike Mercury]

Originally Posted by from Wikipedia

The hijacking of Flight 93 was led by Ziad Jarrah, a member of al-Qaeda.
Jarrah became a devout Muslim and associated with the radical cell.

In November 1999, Jarrah left Hamburg for Afghanistan, where he spent three months. While there, he met with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in January 2000. Jarrah returned to Hamburg at the end of January and in February obtained a new passport containing no stamped records of his travels by reporting his passport as stolen.

In May, Jarrah received a visa from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, arriving in Florida in June 2000.

Four "muscle" hijackers were trained to storm the cockpit and overpower the crew, and three accompanied Jarrah on Flight 93. The first, Ahmed al-Nami, arrived in Miami, Florida, on May 28, 2001, on a six-month tourist visa with United Airlines Flight 175 hijackers Hamza al-Ghamdi and Mohand al-Shehri. The second Flight 93 hijacker, Ahmed al-Haznawi, arrived in Miami on June 8 with Flight 11 hijacker Wail al-Shehri. The third Flight 93 muscle hijacker, Saeed al-Ghamdi, arrived in Orlando, Florida, on June 27 with Flight 175 hijacker Fayez Banihammad.

On August 3, 2001, an intended fifth hijacker, Mohammed al-Qahtani, flew into Orlando from Dubai. He was questioned by officials, who were dubious that he could support himself with only $2,800 cash to his name, and suspicious that he intended to become an illegal immigrant as he was using a one-way ticket. He was sent back to Dubai.

Jarrah and Saeed al-Ghamdi's passports were recovered from the Flight 93 crash site. Jarrah's family said that he had been an "innocent passenger" on board the flight.

Vice President Dick Cheney, in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center deep under the White House, authorized Flight 93 to be shot down, but upon learning of the crash, is reported to have said, "I think an act of heroism just took place on that plane."