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Published December 05, 2009, 12:00 AM

DECADE'S END: Terrorism and United Flight 93


In this Sept. 16, 2001 file photo, an American flag flies from a makeshift altar overlooking the ongoing investigation of the crash of United Airlines 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)




  • In this Sept. 16, 2001 file photo, an American flag flies from a makeshift altar overlooking the ongoing investigation of the crash of United Airlines 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)<br /><br /><br /><br />
  • SEPT. 9, 2002: Cathy Stefani of San Jose, Calif., places a teddy bear next to an "angel" marker for her daughter, Nicole Miller, at a makeshift memorial at the Shanksville, Pa., site of the Sept. 11, 2001 crash site of United Flight 93. 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
  • 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)
  • SEPT. 10, 2005: Deb Stunkard of Pittsburgh visits the temporary memorial to the passengers of Flight 93 at the 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)<br /><br /><br /><br />
  • This Sept. 11, 2007 file photo shows Tom DeSimone of Malden, Mass., participating in a sunrise memorial at the United Airlines Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., marking the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. 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)<br /><br /><br /><br />