Heroes of Flight 93

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Hidden On: 15 Oct 2001
Waypoint (Landmark): N022AD
Open Cache:  Non-commercial use only
Cache type:  Normal
Cache size:   Normal

Difficulty:  (easy)
Terrain:  (easy)

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• The cache is a two quart clear rubbermaid container with a white lid and a big green and black "Official Geocache" label. It should be in plain sight. Please do not go poking around in the memorial to look for it! 
  

We awoke this morning to find a beautiful, yet chilly day in Somerset. Since we had some extra time before we had to pick up Brenda down the road, we decided to head over to the memorial. It was pretty early when we arrived, and we were suprised at the large number of visitors. We paid our respects and checked out both sides of the memorial "wall", but did not immediately notice the cache container. We were all invited into the small building for a brief presentation, and then the cache soon became pretty insignificant. The plans for the permanent memorial are just beautiful. We will to return again with Brenda the next time we are in the area.

And so this cache has survived yet another migration to live another day. The coordinates have been updated accordingly. Thanks Blitz!

Since I cannot describe what I saw and felt, you must see this place for yourself. Here are the new coords for the cache: N40° 03.324 W78° 54.011
[Modified 2008-08-13 20:52:28]

  1 part of the memorial

This cache is being relocated across the street along with the rest of the memorial. This process is expected to take a few weeks during which time the cache will not be available. If you do happen to find the cache in its new home, please let us know what the new coordinates are.

Cache was an easy find but by no means a park and grab.
Time had to be taken for this to sink in.
The area had quite an impact on me.

Thanks for bringing me here.

- Rev Mike

TNLNSL. Did not know this cache is off the market on another site. All I knew was that I was not going to try to swap anything in it! Did grab it and sign the log. And the travel bugs are still in it.
Was told the first part of the real memorial will be done on the 10'th anniversary.
[Modified 2008-03-31 06:21:20]

  Memorial

I can find no words to express how I felt while visiting this site...

Wow is all a can say! What a touching tribute to those who stood tall and prevented flight 93 from turning into a missle meant to cause more destruction.

I arrived with fellow cachers bvnlj(return visit) and grawhawke.

TFTC SLTN

SCB#8

Went to this sight today and felt such an overwhelming sense of sorrow. Lookig at all of the momentos people have left and listening to the volunteer who was giving a presentation about what occurred you can't help but feel not only this deep loss for the victims but also for their
family and friends. Anyone who hasn't been to this sight should really go .... we're sorry we haven't been there until now. The sacrifice they gave is just astounding and brave.
Thanks QM for this cache

After reflecting our personal feelings at the temporary memorial, we found the cache and signed the log. Thanks for the cache at a place so special.

A tribute to our Heroes
TFTC,
Virginia Belle, visiting from Illinois

Stopped by during a trip with the family. Found this poem engraved on a metal plaque.

United Flight #93

We will never forget when the call came.
For a trip that would return us never the same.

The journey though anzious, was filled with much dread.
For none of really knew what lay ahead.

In a remote part of a small little town.
In an old strip-mine a plane had gone down.

Oh, we knew the enemies, they thought they had scored.
But they hadn't planned for the heroes on board.

The refused to give in, and they gave it their best,
And there on that ground, the plane laid to rest.

So we made our way to this small patch of land,
And gathered our rakes and sifted through sand.

We walked miles and miles around ponds and lakes,
Searching for anything someone could take.

Something, anything, small we could find,
to give some sort of closure and provide peace of mind.

It became a mission by the end of the day,
to find a small token, a watch, or a chain,
That someone could look at and place with a name.

In the center of this, one thing stood true,
Old Glory kept waving her red, white, and blue.

We would look up at her often with tears in our eyes
and remember with reverence those who had died.

We all were connected to those on that plane,
we helf wallets, or purses bearing their name.

And our wish as we pray, some quietly, some loud,
was that we hope we did well and that we made you proud.

Sandra Greene
Knoxville FBI
Evidence Response Team

  Flight 93 Poem

1500 hrs. Had to come here before we see Hollywoods view-point. Only question we have. What is taking so long for the permanent memorial? (could it be the federal bureaucracy) Good & Safe Caching to all Who Follow

My first cache of the year. I've been meaning to visit this spot, and also do this cache, for a while now. This was the first time I was in the general area that I wasn't already late for something else. I took a few pictures, and a brochure from the 'visitors booth' there, and left my signature in both the cache logbook, and the visitor's log in the booth.

Thanks for placing a cache here to pinpoint this location for cachers like me, who weren't sure exactly where this location was.

Was in the area after a wrong turn heading for the PA State Championships of the World Atlatl Association.

When the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial went up in Washington, people began leaving tokens of rememberence at the stone wall. Before that, memorials had little more than flowers but there was something about that stark list of the fallen that drew that kind of interaction like no memorial before it. I had no personal connection to that conflict or those involved but when I visited year ago I watched a man standing there reach out and touch one of the names. It was like a fist reached into my chest and squeezed my heart. That he left a pair of dog-tags behind seemed so very right.

Unfortunately, I did not feel that same sense of power at this memorial. The tall chain link fence and dry-erase board seems terribly calculated to collect artifacts. Originally, people left items in the field spontaneously but now those making the pilgrimage leave flags and things seemingly because they feel it is something they should do to show their patriotism. The section of fence seems to have stolen the soul from the memorial.

Hopefully when a permanent memorial is built, the power that this place deserves to have will return.

Stopped by the memorial on the way back from NJ to Pittsburgh. As expected, very moving and interesting to talk with the volunteer there, one of the three living eyewitnesses to the crash. Thanks so much for the experience!