Sephen good morning and welcome to flight 93 National Memorial. My name is stephen clark, and i have the honor of serving as the superintendent of this very special place. The National Park service is honored and deeply humbled to serve as the steward of this 2200acre memorial dedicated in the memory of 40 amazing heroes. On this day 19 years ago, the passengers and crew members of flight 93 bonded together and prevented their hijacked airplane from reaching its intended target, washington, dc, a mere 18 minutes flying time from this sacred ground behind me. Which, today, marks their final resting place. Their sacrifice saved an untold number of lives. Since that day, these special people have always been remembered as heroes to america and around the world. Membersengers and crew of flight 93 continue to be a testament to the best of humankind, showing incredible strength and resilience in setonse to an unprecedented of challenging circumstances. And again, today, on this special day
Woodward on the early stages of the pandemic. Good morning, everyone. Came from the Beautiful Service we had never forget. Tomorrow as you know is 9 11. Can you believe its 19 years since that terrible tragedy befell our country . Morning, we had a remembrance for those who died inthe plane crash pennsylvania. But so manytomorrow people want to be on site on the us at so we had a few of the invitation of the flight attendants where they read the list of people who had died. On all of the flights. Airlinesamerican flight 11. First was the north tower second the south tower. 9 37, the pentagon. American Airlines Flight 77 entered the pentagon. 10 03 United Airlines crashes into a field in shanksville, pennsylvania. That crash is memorialized off the rotunda of the capital with the testimonial that the courage of those people was so remarkable and that most likely the destination of that flight was the u. S. Capitol. We will have a moment in the next few days, the flowers and attributes a
Director of the daytime program. Daytime at the side heart building is offered here on the west side for adults with flexible schedules and a little bit of time for leisure learning. Today we welcome you to the 92nd street learning count talks. Its called tuesdays with the times. Its featuring noted New York Times journalists and authors. Our tuesdays with the time series as well as all of our daytime lecturers are provided for a formal discussion, debate on issues that affect us all. Todays discussion focuses on a topic that still remains greatly in our consciousness. We welcome journalist james dwyer, and kevin flynn, for discussion based upon their published book 102 minutes, the untold story of the fight to survive inside the twin towers. Jim dwyer and kevin flynn are native new yorkers, veteran newspaper reporters, and winter so many awards together and separately. James joined the New York Times in may 2001 as a reporter for the metropolitan section. Prior to joining the times, m
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 t
University of michigan professor Jonathan Marwil teaches a history how the september 11th remembered. The class discussion revolves around this is a depress photographs of a 9 11 victim falling from the World Trade Center. Okay, lets begin. So far, but we have been focusing on, first of all, was the film, and the images in the naudet film done by the two brothers. French brothers, 9 11. So, we looked at, what . Images of the buildings, and noticeably images of firefighters because they were the main focus of the film. And last week, we started talking about the 9 11 Commission Report that is how, was the event investigated, and we are going to continue on with that on thursday of this week. What we have it looked, at what you might think is, in some ways, not appropriate to look at, are the dead. And the dead of this event, if you think about it, and if you thought about it very much, they are in a rather unusual position visavis the dead of other either terrorist attacks, or attacks b