Rockwood, Pennsylvania
We stopped at Bull Run Regional Park in Centreville, VA for a few days on our way to Pennsylvania. We enjoyed visiting with Derek's family and were able to make plans to meet them in New York later this summer.
Today we visited the Flight 93 National Memorial.
It has been opened less than a year and some landscaping is still being completed. It is quite an impressive and emotional site.
The walkway leading to the Visitor Center traces the flight path of the plane. The tall walls signify the altitude of the plane as it crested the hill.
The Visitor Center is situated between the walls. The exhibits were exceptional, depicting a minute by minute account of the flight and including passenger telephone calls to their families.
All of this is on a hill overlooking the crash site. About a half a mile down the hill is the Memorial Plaza.
The Memorial Plaza stretches the entire length of the Crash Site and Debris Field to the Wall of Names. The Wall of Names honors the 40 passengers and crew of Flight 93.
I highly recommend visiting this site if you are ever in the area.
Tomorrow we are planning to visiting the Johnstown Flood Museum. Seems to be a lot of tragedy in this rural area of Pennsylvania.
This is so cool. It wasn't there when we were out that way.
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