Next we travel to Somerset County county pennsylvania, to visit the flight 93 memorial, and take a tour of the Visitor Center. Which details the events of december of september 11th 2001. The memorial is the final resting place a 40 passengers and crew. This program is just under one hour. Full i am Adam Schaeffer and im a park ranger at flight 93 National Memorial we will be looking inside the Visitor Center which was dedicated in 2015. We are standing out at the end of the flight path overlook. We are standing on the shadow of the flight path flight 93 would have been on. The reason we are standing here is because this orientation for visitors is central to the design of the Visitor Center itself. The walls shield the visitors view of the landscape around us. And the enormity of the landscape. And only frame the flight path as you approach the entrance. As you are coming off the parking lot, you have to walk the flight path this plane was on just before it crashed. One of the first things visitors notice as they are walking the flight path is the timestamps that are embedded in the ground. This timestamp represents the first plane striking the north tower in new york city at 8 46 a. M. The second timestamp represents the second plane hitting the south tower. We have some geese flying overhead. The third timestamp will represent American Airlines flight. And if you continue down to our memorial, the names of the passengers and crew are listed. Just beyond the wooden gate, the last possible piece of granite that has been laid here before you is the timestamp for flight 93. In 2002, Congress Passes legislation and the president signs into law the flight 93 memorial act designating it as a unit of the National Park service. A federal Advisory Commission was appointed to oversee a Design Management plan for the site as well as the boundary for this memorial. That was the beginning of the memorial that has taken shape around us. We are still not finished with the memorial. There are still a few missing components to the memorial landscape we are continuing to add on to. The majority of the memorial came online this past year with the dedication of the Visitor Center, learning center, and the walking trails that extent from this complex down to the crash site down to the site of the Memorial Plaza. We are looking down over top of that wall from the flight path, the continuation of the flight path just before the impact site and the crash site we protect. The National Park service protects over 42 acres of ground south of this black wall you see. That is the Northern Boundary to the crash site and debris field of flight 93. The quartermile stretch from our Visitors Center out to the path flight mall well, that is the shortest walk. It is there because it protects the crash site and field that allows visitors the opportunity to get close to that landscape and to pay their respects or leave tributes to the passengers and crew of flight 93. These tall walls are the Visitor Center and sometimes confusing for visitors arriving because it does not stand out as a building. They do appear as walls. The design was based around answering the basic question of where did the plane crash . Because of the landscape here, it is very open sky, open sweeping landscape, very easy for visitors to become disoriented to where the flight crashed. The architect paul murdoch out of los angeles designed the Visitor Center around the orientation of the flight path and as you turn, you are looking down the flight path and you can progress down the pathway, as you pass through the first opening, the entrance to our Visitor Center will be on your lefthand side. What he is trying to draw the visitor out to is the flight path overlooked. When you pass to the second wall, well, the landscape reopens to your vision field of vision. We will go inside the Visitor Center but i want to stop here and show you the texture of the walls that appear throughout the memorial. You will find this looks like wooden beams which are indicative of some of the barns an older buildings found in pennsylvania. It is a tiein to the Hemlock Grove of trees which was impacted when flight 93 crashed here on september 11. Some of the angles you see here are catch the angles of the eastern hemlock, the branches and the leaf structure. That mimics some of the cuts you see in the sidewalks. As we approach you will see it throughout the glass as well as the ceiling tile. Lets take a walk inside and we will take a look at the exhibit space that just opened in september 2015. The first panel you come to on the side here is entitled an ordinary day. Each wall you come to has this glass panel that gives you an overview of what each wall will cover. Very important to give visitors, especially if they did not experience september 11, everybody thinks back to the bright blue sky. It was important to place people in the context of Somerset County and the area around shanksville, pennsylvania. Since this is more of an unfamiliar story, new york city is quite familiar to a number of people. And so, as you progress through the timeline of events, you will see it places you at the three attack sites of that day. There is some foreshadowing that takes place, but it places you in arlington at the pentagon and it places you at the believed attack site of flight 93 which is the United States capitol building. We will take you to those three places. There is a Business Card from one of the people working for a subsidiary of cantor fitzgerald, showing the business as usual aspect of that morning. A military cap from the pentagon. As well as the wall plate hanging over in office. The piece that stands out to me the most, the story i like to share with people because a lot of people do not realize this is on the evening of september 11, every year there is a congressional barbecue the president hosts. This year was on september 11, 2001. The members of congress were invited to the white house where they were going to enjoy a couple hundred pounds of tenderloin. After the events began to unfold that morning, and they realized they were evacuating washington, d. C. , and the barbecue was canceled. A lot of the food that was prepared for the barbecue was sent to the rescue workers and provide support at the pentagon. The invitation came to us from a staffer and his son planning to attend the barbecue that evening. When you first come inside the Visitor Center, you will notice there are these tall black walls and the pattern is very similar to the walls on the exterior of the Visitor Center. When flight 93 crashes here, the thousands of gallons of jet fuel that incinerate on impact scorched 80100 hemlock trees. This black against the wall is symbolic of the charring of those trees. It is time you are taken back to the story constantly as you are moving through the site. It is tying you back to the story constantly as you are moving to the site. Usually questions that come up from visitors, either the coloration or the angles and it allows us to tie it back to the story. This wall takes you right into the events of september 11 and what is happening in new york city initially. In the center of this exhibit space, we have rolling footage and it cuts between different networks. It shows the global aspects of that morning. We have a breaking news story to tell you about. 00 11 55 it happened just a few moments ago. We have very Little Information available. You are looking at a disturbing live shot. That is the world trade. 00 12 09 unconfirmed reports that a plane has crashed into one of the towers. Another plane just hit. Another plane has just hit. Right into the middle of it. 00 12 22 my god, right into the middle of the building. Another plane just flew into the second tower. 00 12 36 adam the other thing, in the background, you have an image that shows the statue of liberty from new jersey. They shot is taken a number of days after september 11 but it shows you the smoke still hovering over the city in lower manhattan. The artifacts that were selected were done so very specifically to represent the three sites. And place people at those sites. From new york city, you have those are on loan you have some cutlery. Those are on loan from us from the september 11 museum. You have pieces of limestone part of their pentagon. You have a miniature statue of freedom, which as people were the architect of the capitol at the time showed up that morning a little before 9 00, i believe, and his story he is tuning into this news footage. He is also preparing that morning for a meeting to raise funds for u. S. Capitol Visitor Center. That is what his morning begins like. As things unfold, they learn about the pentagon being attacked and there is a rogue plane inbound for washington, d c he later learns the immediate threat has passed because this plane has crashed and pennsyvania somewhere. He later comes here in 2012 and this specific statue of freedom, this desk model of freedom, was on his desk that morning. He leaves the statue of freedom at one of the corners found at Memorial Plaza. He left an official letter and in a letter, we have a copy of that, this model of the statue of freedom that stands atop the dome of the u. S. Capitol building is left with deep respect, at the final resting place of the heroes of flight 93. Those who sacrificed their lives here saved mine and those of many thousands of others at the u. S. Capitol building as well as an Historic Building of our democracy known around the world. We have come to shanksville, pennsyvania, two to pay our respects and express our deep gratitude to those who will never be forgotten. We cover the buildup to september 11 with a timeline that takes you through the establishment of al qaeda. There is little piece about bin laden. We placed it on a rail so you have to get close to this wall in order to be able to read more about this. We did this specifically knowing that some people would not care and would choose not to step up to the rail and know more about this. We did this out of sensitivity for the many family members that often visit the site. After visitors come from this wall, they will turn around and they are faced with a map of the United States and this is depicting the nearly 4500 aircraft that are in the air that morning, potential threat to the United States that morning. What was important about this wall, showing the chaos of trying to sort out correct reports coming out from erroneous ones. The other important thing about this wall, though, is it gives you the diagram of flight 93. It was a boeing 757 and if we get closer, you can see, this is where the passengers and crews were ticketed on the morning of september 11. The diagram at the end shows you exactly where the passengers were seated, the terrorists, where they took position on the plane and where the crew members would have been seated. The artifacts we used to represent, we have a boarding pass from the oldest passenger on flight 93. One passenger was headed home to japan that morning. One of the things a lot of visitors recognized immediately, how under seated flight 93 was. One of the major changes that has occurred since september 11 is there has been a number of aircraft mergers, there are fewer flights for example United Airlines typically flew this flight three times a day from newark to San Francisco. This plane would have been capable of carrying 182 passengers. That morning, they are ticketed with 33 passengers and seven crew. That is minus the four terrorists ticketed in the first class section of the plane. Four of them are not planning to arrive in San Francisco. The 33 passengers planning to make it to San Francisco that morning are expecting to arrive a little after 11 00 local time. We will go around the corner to the next exhibit wall. The next wall shows flight 93, it is airborne at this point after being delayed 20 minutes. Flight 93 takes off at 8 42 a. M. And it will begin its gradual climb out of newark airspace if you have ever left from newark, you realize the airport is right across the skyline from the World Trade Center. This is four minutes before Americans Airlines flight 11 will hit the north tower. Flight 93 gets airborne. It will begin its trip to San Francisco. This gray on the map represents the routine flight across the state of pennsylvania. They are barely over ohio when the four terrorists are going to take control of flight 93. They will incapacitate the first officer and the captain. They are going to begin to turn flight 93 around for heading toward washington, d. C. At 9 28 a. M. , the approximate time the terrorists take over flight 93, the four hijackers seated in first class will get up from their positions and they are going to rush the cockpit. There are some details about this that we just do not know exactly how they took over the plane. We do know from what was recovered that they were carrying knives or box cutters. They did threaten the passengers and crew with a bomb, which is later learned to be a faux bomb. After they seized the control of the cockpit, there is a little bit of a dip in the altitude which gives us the indication when the plane is taken over. The plane is going to dip a couple of hundred feet, which is fairly significant. It would have been noticed by air traffic control. Because of being on autopilot, the plane will come up to its assigned cruising altitude around 35,000 feet. The plane is going to manually be flown there is a steep bank and it will continue to climb to about 40,000 feet in altitude. The terrorists will use the heading of 120, which will take them back to washington, d. C. , and that draws the pretty straight line. The idea was from the tactics they were planning to when they were within range of reagan airport the diagram you see now depicts the change from the time of the hijacking. You can see by the yellow blocks indicated on the diagram, the passengers and crew have gotten up from their seats and they have moved to the back of the aircraft and these represent seats where phone calls would have been placed from on board the flight. We know there were 37 attempted phone calls. We do not know what that represents all of the phone calls because there were cell phone calls made. Most of the calls after the time of the hijacking were placed from airfones. These are satellite based phones the passengers would have used their credit cards to swipe and it leaves an excellent record for us to know these calls were attempted. We know who they called or who they attempted to call and we are able to go back to transcripts or, in some cases, we have the actual recordings of some of the calls left on answering machines. These blocks represent the area of the aircraft where these calls are being placed from and you can see from the timeline, just to the right, how passengers and crew from their phone calls and from what we have been able to gather from different phone calls, a plan is being formulated to do something about their situation. They are learning very quickly about the takeover that has occurred on other aircraft. The World Trade Center, as well as the pentagon, have been struck by aircraft. What they are being told by the terrorist on their flight, they are going back to the airport to have demands met, which was common strategy being applied in reverse. The faa developed what is known as common strategy for people in the Airline Industry in hijack situations and it was really how you should respond. Some of the passive responses in years past is what a lot of the crew members would have been taking with them on board the plane that morning and how to respond to the hijacking initially. Because of these phone calls and the knowledge of what they are dealing with, it allows them to develop a completely new strategy while they are in the air that morning. That strategy is that they are going to attempt to retake control of the aircraft. We learn the passengers and crew took a vote from the back of the plane to do something and they would not sit idly by and wait for Something Else to happen. That is best illustrated in the center of this exhibit space where you are viewing the information that has come back from the flight data recorder. This is the first box that is recovered out of the ground here at the crash site of flight 93, 2 days after the crash. They implement the plan of fighting back and trying to regain control. The terrorists are going to manipulate the controls to make it difficult for the passengers and crew to gain access to the cockpit. That is provided by the National Transportation safety board. At the top, you will see the cockpit voice recorder, the narrative across the top. You can see in real time what is unfolding on the cockpit voice recorder. The front of the plane, there are four microphones that capture the voices in and around the cockpit space. That is paired up with how this plane is flying in the final moments. As we approach 10 03 a. M. , you will see the planes come up at a 90 degree angle. The plane will rise up and as it does that, it will hold that for about a second and then it is going to rock over onto its backside and the plane will come down in crash. 10 03 11 in the fields just beyond the Visitor Center. As we leave this wall and we turn to the next well, it was very important to try to give visitors, especially if they have never flown before, never been on a 757 before, the idea or the sense of being compressed into the space of a single aisle aircraft. Flight 93 and the flight that hit the pentagon are both this model aircraft. It was important to give visitors the sense of being at the back of the aircraft were a lot of those phone calls took place. We give visitors the opportunity to listen to three of the four recorded phone calls that were placed from on board flight 93. 11 minutes after the hijacking began leaving this message on their home answering machine. 00 28 40 are you there . 00 28 50 honey, are you there . I just wanted to tell you i love you. We are having a little problem on the plane. I am totally fine. I love you more than anything, just know that. I am ok for now. A little problem. I just love you. Please tell my family i love them, too. Bye, honey. This is the answer machine in california capturing the message she just left for her husband jack who was at home but because of the time differential, being three hours different from the eastern seaboard, he is still in bed. He doesnt awaken when she makes the phone call. About 18 minutes into the hijacking, leaving this message on her home answering machine. 00 30 01 i only have a minute. I am on united 93 and it has been hijacked by terrorists. Apparently, they have flown a couple of planes into the World Trade Center already. Mostly, i just want to say i love you. Please give my love i just love you and i just wanted to tell you that. All of my stuff is in the safe. The safe is in my closet in the bedroom. Combination 0913. Maybe and then it should unlock. Bye. Flight attendant found her husband at 9 47 a. M. , about 19 minutes into the hijacking, leaving this message on their answering machine. I, baby. You have to listen to me carefully, im on a plane thats been hijacked. Im on the plane, im calling from the plane. I want to tell you i love you. Please tell my children that i love them very much. I am so sorry. I dont know what to say. They hijacked the plane. Im trying to be calm. Weve turned around, and ive heard that there are planes that have flown into the World Trade Center. I hope to be able to see your face again, baby. I love you. Bye. So, if we walk around from this well, we are going to go around to the next well, and its going to take you right here to shanksville, right outside of shanksville, to where the plane impacts into the edge of a reclaimed mine site. And, if you look to the top, the 911 phone call or not lives only about half a mile, or less, from where we are standing, this is a little snippet of her call. Flight 93 is going to impact at 146 miles per hour, inverted, upside down. This case is really meant to give you the sense of fragmentation that takes place one flight 93 crashes. And so, if we get a little bit closer, you can take a look at some of the pieces that are recovered here. These are average size pieces that were found all across the site from the point of impact and southward. So, you have a lot of wiring. 757 its made up of over 60 miles of wiring. Very comment thing to find. Bolton rivets, over when it impacts. This just shows you how finite this large locomotive waited piece of equipment has become after it hits the ground here. You can see some of the bluish gas or smoke coming out of the creator, the jet fuel that incidents on impact here. What i think a lot of people are oftentimes amazed by is the pieces are so fragmented, and small here, but the majority of the aircraft has been absorbed into the ground here. And so, its not until later when they began excavating the creator, and looking for evidence here, they are going to start to uncover more and more of flight 93. Thats represented maybe best, visually, on the camera by this bronze mockup. This sort of represents the edge of where mining had ceased. So, this is really the southern edge of a very large open surface mind that have been active up until the mid 90s. Flight many three is going to crash just before the edge of that treeline here. So, its actually crashing in an area that would have been the soil what ive been removed for a period of time so the coal had been removed, and this wouldve been back felt. Much softer that morning then had it crashed, in a hard field where the soil hadnt been removed. And then, this area here, where the trees, the hemlock growth exists today, this would have been a natural stand of trees across here. When the jet fuel incidents that morning, with the explosion from crashing into the ground, the fireball is going to continue on the trajectory that the plane had been traveling, and the jet fuel being topside now, because the plane is inverted, its going to come off of it. There are three tanks. The fuel is going to continue on the trajectory of the plane, and actually engulf this area with a flame. Thats best captured by the state police that morning. Around 11 30 that morning, corporal jeff from the Pennsylvania State police, with the aviation division, he is going to be airborne, as they arrive here. And they are going to capture some aerial footage of the site. Initially, they dont know what they are looking at. As far as where the plane impacts. They are going to launch their helicopter. They are going to be briefed, and then they are going to return that afternoon and get some closer footage of the impact site. And this footage really can quickly show you where this whole 757 impacts the ground. And this is the vertical tail stabilizer that you see above, and then the fuselage where wouldve impacted, of course. It was important, so it impacted the ground this way. It shows the scorching of the trees that are represented by the black holes. The Visitor Center. Theres so much debris that is embedded in these hemlock trees because on the trajectory of the flight path. Whatever the decision is made to cut down the burned trees, that they send those trees through a what shipper, and the which a pilot remains here on the site. It never left. And it was part of the effort to ensure that there was proper care taken for the remains, and that norment would leave the site unless they were going for identification and return to family members. You see, some of the response under the community that begins after a flight 93 crashes here, this is rick king, the assistant fire chief out of shanksville. And there is a quote that captures, sort of, the moment, and what that must have been like for responders that were coming here that morning. This photo has been captured many times, with a quote underneath sort of captures the moment for her, when she takes this picture. This also represents the state response, you have governor tom ridge arriving, the governor of pennsylvania at the time, of course he will eventually be promoted when president bush creates the department of Homeland Security as the secretary of the department of Homeland Security. And of course, the media immediately wants to know about this plane crash, with whats happened in new york city, and whats happened at the pentagon. There is an immediate burst for knowledge, and understanding about why this plane has crashed here. What investigators are looking for, and sort of what the experience has been. The media is going to be pushed out of, away from the site within the first hour or so of being here, and so, theres a press conference thats established very near where the first 911 phone call is going to be received. And this is a really great place to sort of transition, i think, to the next wall, behind us. This quote here is taken from the special agent in charge, but it shows the methodical nature that all of the investigators, that came to flight 93, to this crash site, were going to apply for the 13 days that they were going to be coming over the site. So, we move to the next wall. But you see over here is a tactile that visitors can touch, but its representational of the flight. The cockpit voice recorder that they are searching for, this crime scene becomes so important in those early hours, and days after september 11th because this flight does not hit its target, and because of that, investigators are able to comb through the debris field here, and more easily get to any evidence that is going to shed light on who carried out the attacks, how they accomplished the attacks, and whether or not, if there were other, attacks that we needed to be aware of. So, they are hoping to be able to sift through the debris here at the crash site of flight 93, in order to answer a lot of those questions. And its here, one pittsburgh fbi agent says that they were driving the 9 11 investigation because of the evidence they were able to recover here at the site. So, this flight, this cockpit voice recorder, or properly declined the black boxes. You are looking at this as orange, this is how they are loaded into the tail section of the aircraft, and they are designed to be able to survive up to 2000 degrees fahrenheit for a period of about 30 minutes. And withstand a large amount of gforce, from an air to ground crash. So, they were very hopeful that they would find these boxes and the reason we know so much about what happened on flight 93 is because these boxes are excavated out of the ground. But you come to in the center here is a Television Monitor that takes you through the methodical nature of coming through the ground, sort of the linear approach that they take to picking up aircraft debris that might be obstructing the view of any evidence that might be laying underneath it, or on the ground, and say they begin sifting through the debris, and categorizing plane parts from evidence and personal effects that i recovered here and the fabulous thing about this exhibit and some of the other exhibits that we have here in the Visitors Center is captured by oral history. So, you can pick up the ones. You are capturing some of the text year, but you can pick up these wants and listen to the voices of the investigators themselves, describe to the importance of the site. You can hear how important it was, the moment they discovered the cockpit voice recorder in the fight to data recorder. You dont have to hear from a ranger why its important. You can hear from the people themselves tell you that we are here, coming through this site. What you are looking at right now is the centrist bank card that was good recovered here. It sheds a light on the financial trail of al qaeda. So, its a really important piece of evidence thats recovered here on the ground, but you can see they are sifting through the dirt thats being excavated out of the crater here. Very carefully, sort of, breaking through the ground. Basically using they are on their hands and knees, going through a lot of the debris thats here. And a big part of that is also the recovery of human remains. The ability to be able to identify everybody that boarded this aircraft, and so, the end of the exhibit space here, what youre seeing is Somerset Kathy corner, while the mueller, and his scene. He is going to have a federally dispatched team that comes here. Disaster mortuary Operational Response team. But they are going to a system with the recovery of the human remains here. What a lot of hitters ask us about the crash site here is about the remains, about this being a final resting place because we sort of use that term generally but from the moment of impact but 92 of the remains thus estimated were unrecoverable. They are scattered across the site and were never recovered. Believed 8 of the remains of the people on board flight 93 were recovered and a percentage of that 8 were identifiable that could be returned to family members. The remaining unidentified remains were brought back. This is both traditional and nontraditional Burial Ground and we treat the crash site as such, protecting over 42 acres of ground south of the Memorial Plaza. You are looking at some of the pieces recovered from flight 93 itself. A seatbelt latch, some of the silverware that would have been possibly used in first class. A portion of a manual. Youll see, these are some of the larger pieces recovered on flight 93. The piece to the front is the nose number. This is the number that wouldve been used by the specific airline. There is a nose number and a tail number and those are specific to the airline company. The tail number is used by faa to identify planes, like your license plate you have on your car. The top piece comes from the vertical tail stabilizer. That is the only piece other than the American Flag itself that would have adorned the side of the plane. We have some examples of small facts recovered from the site. That is his Law Enforcement badge. We have an employee identification badge. We have a drivers license that was recovered at the crash that. The drivers license is a facsimile. I will come around the side. This wall is all about the passengers and crew of flight 93. The idea here, much like the portrait hanging on your wall at home, there is a central photo were each of the 40 passengers and crew were identified and theres an unmarked photo, a secondary photo that captures them with other people in their lives, other family members and friends, captures a moment in time from their life that was really special to their family or friends. This piece in the center is the cap of the purser, which would have been the Flight Attendant caring for firstclass. It was a signature piece worn by deborah welsh. She would wear this sailor style cap when she went to work. This is one of the photos we have of her wearing that hat. If you pan just above that photo, you will see debbie with her dalmatian. If you come down to the screen, we can look at debbie welsh. There is a bio that will cover a little bit about her life. You can look through additional photos. We see her with her dalmatian. You can scroll through. She loved to fly and she loved she was known for sometimes taking some of the leftover Airline Meals home with her and would take the sum and distribute those would take those home and distribute those to some of the homeless or people in need. This is her with her husband. In the beginning of her career. Over here, you have some items that belonged to first officer leroy homer. His patch from his military service from the air force. His wings and his luggage tag. Two passengers were traveling for the u. S. Census bureau. The bronze medal she received for exceptional service. The other neat piece we have here, the congressional gold medal that was struck for flight 93. It was presented here on september 11 to the site for the actions and the crew. You have both sides represented their. It is important to say that each site, each of the september 11 sites, new york city and the pentagon also have congressional gold medals that represent their sites specifically. This is the one that represents flight 93. If we turn around to the wall behind me, this captures how visitors have been drawn to the site over the last 15 years. At the top, you have a quote that was written on a tribute piece that was left here at the flight 93 crash site. If we come over here to the exhibit case, the words are on this photo of a quilt. Captain ruda wrote these words. At an early planning meeting where they were trying to decide what would happen with this memorial, this quote was identified as a preamble to a Larger Mission statement for what the memorial would become. When we came in from the outside of the Visitor Center and you are walking the flight path, as we did at the beginning, you noticed a common field one day. Some of the groupings of tribute items that have been left at the temporary memorial or at the permanent memorial, you have things that represent the rescue workers that responded at all of the sites, patches are a common form of item left year after year here representing not just rescue workers but military. We have a strong connection here with people visiting that leave military items. Down at the end, we also have items that were left here by the people who responded here. This is the shanksville fire department, a coat that would have been left. The original coat is in storage. This is a facsimile. The original coat you can see a picture. We have the assistant fire chiefs helmet. A piece in the center is a montage of various people and times throughout the history of the site since the crash. From the very moment where family members were coming here for the first time and leaving flowers and things themselves to visitors beginning to come here for the first time as well and pay tribute to the actions of the passengers and crew, you have shifting periods from the early days to the dedication of a permanent memorial in 2011 at the Memorial Plaza and the wall that bears their names, building up to the dedication of the Visitor Center in 2015. At the conclusion of the exhibit space, this is a final wall and it captures the nearly 3000 lives that were lost that day as a result of these attacks, including flight 93. They are segmented out by the different locations. In the center, there are three screens that capture the three memorial sites. Because this is an unfolding story, we did not talk about postseptember 11 and the world that is continuously changing and there are events tied to International Terrorism that have unfolded since that time. The learning center, which he passed on her way into the site, is a place where we are continuously going to be looking to expand on the story since september 11 and talk about it is a place for we can talk about the legacy of flight 93 as well as the continuing story from these events. We thought it was important to stop here and pay tribute to all those who lost their lives as well as show the three memorial sites where you can go and learn more about the individual stories at those locations. Flight 93 National Memorial represents a lot about what makes america a fantastic country. In that, on september 11, 2001, the people on board flight 93 were every day ordinary people, citizens of the globe, and it shows you can make a difference no matter how big or how small and no matter where you are at. And in a very short period of time. It shows human nature at its best and its worst moments, together. It shows that everyday people can come together for the betterment of humanity and what you see illustrated here is people not sitting by and watching but actively becoming involved citizens in an event that unfolded to them. The passengers and crew of flight 93 were living in a postseptember 11 world long before any of us knew about it. It is important to take the lessons of the people on board this plane. I often tell students coming here, think about how you utilize 3035 minutes out of your everyday life and what you can do with that time. Maybe you can repurpose that time, even if it is something as simple as, you know, helping somebody carry their groceries from the car or picking up garbage. It is often a challenge to the visitors who come here, a chance for selfexamination and i think a lot of visitors ask themselves, would they be able to do this themselves if they were put in the position . It is a question nobody can answer unless they are faced with the same set of situations. It is something people often ask themselves when they are here. [captioning American History tv on cspan 3. Exploring the people and events that tummy american story every weekend. Coming up this weekend, saturday at 9 05 pm eastern, a look at world war i and the environment with addict color, coeditor of environmental histories of world war i. He will discuss the impacts of world war had on the glove. It went far beyond fiscal changes to european battlefields. Just and agricultural production, and the displacement of wildlife and humans. On sunday, at 3 pm eastern, here about yalls first female students after you get the university. Author of yell needs women. Dedication on september 17th. At 7 pm, watch the 1960 president ial debate between john f. Kennedy and returned nixon. This weekend on cspan 3. Every saturday at 8 pm eastern on American History tv on cspan 3 go inside a Different College classroom and hear about topics ranging from the american revolution, civil rights, and u. S. President s. Thanks for your patience and for logging into class. With most College Campuses closed due to the impact of the coronavirus, watch professors teaching from a virtual setting to gauges students. He did most of the work to change a unit, but reagan met him halfway, reagan encouraged him, reagan supported him. Freedom of the press, we will get to later, i just mentioned, he called it freedom of the use of the press and it is indeed freedom to print things and publish things. It is not a freedom for what we now refer to institutionally as the press. Lectures in history on American History tv on cspan 3. Every saturday at 8 pm eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts
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