Honoring
The Heroes

On September 11, 2001, the crew and passengers aboard United Flight 93 willfully and deliberately forced their plane to crash into a quiet field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. They chose to sacrifice their own lives rather than permit their plane to reach its intended target (which we now know to have been the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.). In so doing, they saved the lives of hundreds, and perhaps thousands of their fellow Americans.

They were 40 men and women, plus an unborn child. They were of different backgrounds, professions, and faiths. No differences in politics or religions or personal ideologies stood in their way. Instead, united and with their fate virtually assured, they voted unanimously to take down that plane.

The names of the 40 heroes are engraved on the rocks surrounding the fountain in the center of the Remember Me Rose Garden. May we “Never Forget” them and their spirit of unity, faith, courage, and conviction in the face of extraordinarily desperate circumstances. They are true heroes!!