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Published December 05, 2009, 12:00 AM

DECADE'S END: United Flight 93 memorial (2002)


SEPT. 7, 2002: Flags mark a temporary memorial at the crash site of United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. Before Flight 93 fell from the sky, this patch of southwestern Pennsylvania was a farmer's field, then a strip mine. Then something happened, something unimaginable and unwelcome, national and global. And this place became a place of memory. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
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