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Flight 93 National Memorial
Flight 93 National Memorial Architectural rendering, released in 2009, of a memorial commemorating the victims of the hijacking of United Airlines flight 93, which was crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. A structure called the Tower of Voices was later added to the memorial.

Shanksville

borough, Pennsylvania, United States
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Shanksville, borough, Somerset county, southwestern Pennsylvania. It lies on the Stonycreek River in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains about 17 miles (27 km) south of Johnstown. It is best known for its proximity to the site of the crash of United Airlines flight 93, one of the planes hijacked as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001. Seven crew members and 33 passengers of flight 93 were killed as they resisted the...

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