Museum Is Exhibiting Tributes to Flight 93
An airplane made of Lego building blocks, a salt shaker decorated like an angel and other tributes left at the field where United Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11 were put on display Wednesday at the State Museum of Pennsylvania.
Museum officials assembled “Flight 93 Remembered” with the help of the Somerset County Historical and Genealogical Society, which has been cataloging and preserving thousands of items from the site.
“We’ve watched this unfold, so it’s very personal. You saw it and you felt it,” museum spokesman Howard Pollman said.
Forty-four people, including the four hijackers, were killed when the airplane crashed in Somerset County near Shanksville, about 80 miles east of Pittsburgh. Officials believe the plane was heading for a target in Washington when passengers fought the hijackers.
The exhibits, gathered from a temporary memorial at the site, include a note scrawled by an 8-year-old girl in pencil on a scrap of loose-leaf paper.
“We are trying to catch the bad guys. I’m so sad,” the note reads. “I can’t believe it happened. It is so sad.”
“Flight 93 Remembered” will be on display through Oct. 2.
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