The Battle for a Flight 93 Memorial

The Flight 93 Federal Advisory Commission will meet in San Francisco next April and in New York next October before deciding on a permanent memorial to that 9/11 flight's victims.

United Airlines Flight 93 was going from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco when it was hijacked and crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pa.

The permanent memorial will be on a 1,700-acre site in Shanksville.

Make your voices heard if you do not agree with the memorial design, which takes many of its cues from Islamic symbolism, including the crescent shape and orientation. Meanwhile, the design itself does little to reflect the heroism of those on board who realized what the terrorists were planning to do and put their lives on the line to save hundreds or thousands of other people in Washington, DC, including potential targets at the White House or Capitol building.

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