this pennsylvania field ranks among the most courageous acts in american history. we re back. that was former president george w. bush really being masterful and wonderful on saturday at an event dedicating a memorial for flight 93. though the site has opened, $10 million is still needed to finish the memorial where the plane crashed on a hillside in southwest pennsylvania. former president bill clinton announced he and speaker john boehner will help meet that goal. since i am no longer in office, i can do unpopular things. i told the secretary of the interior, the head of your development program that i was aghast to find out we still need to raise $10 million to finish this place, and speaker boehner and i have already volunteered to do a bipartisan event in washington. let s get the show on the road. let s roll. mike smerconish, the nationally syndicated radio host and an msnbc political analyst who was with me in shanksville on saturday. welcome, michael.
this pennsylvania field ranks among the most courageous acts in american history. we re back. that was former president george w. bush really being masterful and wonderful on saturday at an event dedicating a memorial for flight 93. though the site has opened, $10 million is still needed to finish the memorial where the plane crashed on a hillside in southwest pennsylvania. former president bill clinton announced he and speaker john boehner will help meet that goal. since i am no longer in office, i can do unpopular things. i told the secretary of the interior, the head of your development program that i was aghast to find out we still need to raise $10 million to finish this place, and speaker boehner and i have already volunteered to do a bipartisan event in washington. let s get the show on the road. let s roll. mike smerconish, the nationally syndicated radio host and an msnbc political analyst who was with me in shanksville on saturday.
they will learn that individual choices make a difference. that love and sacrifice can triumph over evil and hate. and that what happened above this pennsylvania field ranks among the most courageous acts in american history. that was president bush yesterday at the dedication of the flight 93 national memorial in shanksville, pennsylvania. one of the 40 passengers and crew who fought the hijackers aboard that plane on september 11th, one of the stories that has become well known is the story of mark bingham. he was one of the passengers who decided to storm the cockpit and he made that decision even before getting this fateful phone message from his mother. this is his mother, alice hoagland calling her son, mark, on september 11th, 2001. mark, this is your mom. it s 10:54 a.m. the news is that it has been hijacked by terrorists. they are planning to probably use the plane as a target to hit some site on the ground so
she said we were young, it was cartoonish. > the tenth anniversary of 9/1r 9/11,9/11, a ful9 remembrances. the tenth day of 9/11, a full day of solemn remembrances. that was yoyo ma at ground zero in manhattan. preparations are under way for monday s cnn tea party republican debate. we ll begin with 9/11 observances around the country. in new york a tree filled plaza surrounds two large square fountains where the twin fountains once stood. one by one the people s names were read aloud who died ten years ago today. ceremonies at the pentagon as well. 184 people died when american airlines flight 77 flew into the side of the building. in shanksville, pennsylvania o beautiful for spacious skies there was also a ceremony at the site where united airlines flight 93 went down in a field. we go to chief white house correspondent jessica yellin. a long and emotional day for everyone, including the president. reporter: that s right, don. this is a day that started bef
good morning, from new york city. welcome to a special edition of your cnn sunday morning on this september 11th, 2011, the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. hello to you all. i m t.j. holmes this morning coming to you from a spot overlooking ground zero. we ll have a lot more for you from here and this morning soledad o brien will be joining me throughout the morning. she s at riverside park on the upper west side of manhattan. that is where firefighters are gathering to pay tribute to their fellow firefighters who died in the attacks. we check in with her in just a bit. also, as always, on this sunday morning we d like to say a special good morning to our service men and women watching us right now on the american forces network. thank you for being here, thank you for what you do and certainly on this day, a day that really changed the course of many of your lives. today we are going to remember the victims of 9/11. of course, in new york, washington and pennsylvania.